Help Me Hold On

.Help Me Hold On

I cry myself to sleep most nights it seems.
Some days I want to hurry things along.
In my mind I can’t justify the means.
Because in my heart I know that it is wrong.

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You’d think it could be done with ease.
It’s as easy as pulling a trigger or popping a pill.
But then you think of those that it would not please.
And for the hundredth time you lose your will.

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Why does the mind tease us with these little plans.
Then snatch them away just as we reach out.
I can only think that it’s my Gods guiding hands.
He’s saying to me that my time it is not.

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So on I go with life’s designs.
Trying my best to stay on life’s pathway.
Even though at times I cannot read the signs.
I know that he will show me the way.

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It is hard not to be tempted by all the bad I see.
But I vow this day that Satan will not win.
If God can give his only son for me.
The least I can do is show that I have him within.

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I don’t know how and I don’t know why.
I can’t say when it will happen.
I only know that someday I will die.
I know that my God will come for me then.


Veila J. Powell
Copyright ã1994