I Want You

For today’s prompt, take the phrase “I Want (blank),” replace the blank with a word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then write the poem.

I want you…

Not like the world plays at love

I want the unadulterated truth of us

I want you…

Not for perfunctory satisfaction

But for life; a day-to-day-together interaction

I want you…

At my side it is cold alone

Even the Good Book says two are better than one

I want you…

Then, it is no longer I, but ‘we’

Your body next to mine is such fine company

I want you…

Loneliness isolates the soul

The ‘onliness’ of me can never make me whole

© Janet Martin

I Want to Want What I Should Want Without the Want of What I Would...

PAD Challenge Day 28: For today’s prompt, take the phrase “I Want (blank),” replace the blank with a word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then write the poem. 

I want to want the day at hand

And not for some lost land to pine

I want to want to hold the hand

That reaches to hold onto mine

And I would like, with grateful love

To prove my want with fervent grit

For soon Today will find the trove

Where only thought can treasure it

© Janet Martin

 But godliness with contentment is great gain.

  For we brought nothing into the world, 

and we can take nothing out of it. 

1 Tim.6:6-7

In Honor of Today #2

Today is all we have

Its splash of gold and gray

Too soon must meet the aloof grave

Of touch-proof yesterday

Rhetoric of Bygone

Written with what has been

Pauses where today wakes the dawn

With Something never seen

Tucked twixt future and past

God overflows Time’s tray

With all that we will ever have

A present called Today

Yesterday's flow'r is done  
Tomorrow is a bud
Today is always in full bloom
So live and laugh and love
 

© Janet Martin

In Honor of Today...

It does no good to try to bear

Tomorrow’s weight of waiting care

Better to heed today’s demand

And focus on the need at hand

The fear of what may yet unfold

Can blind us to the gold we hold

We were not born to try to bear

Tomorrow’s morn of unformed care

The illusion of morrow’s ‘if’

Is never how we picture it

And who of us is strong enough

To balance more than today’s ‘stuff’?

Too much, tomorrow’s such and such

Is always out of reach; time’s touch

For all its fancied come-what-may

Will never yield more than Today

Then help us, Lord, to keep in mind

The transience of each daily grind

And remind us to trust in You

For strength to honor today’s due

© Janet Martin

Songs of hope for the day we are in!

Without Compromise...

Fear seeks to destroy us

With life’s Great Unknown

But it cannot move this;

God upon his throne

Hate, confused and hungry

Fights a losing chase

Love, composed and humble

Triumphs with its grace

Bitterness can break us

With its binding pain

Forgiveness can make us

Free and glad again

Anger and resentment

Chills us with dark spite

Kindness and contentment

Fills us with God’s Light

Disappointment, trouble

Seems, must have its day

But without these, people

Would forget to pray

Fear alarms, distresses

But it fades away

In the arms of Promise

God, our Hope and Stay

He is peace and pardon

Without compromise

Truth's established Guardian

In a world of lies

© Janet Martin

"The LORD is the one who goes ahead of you; 

He will be with you. 

He will not fail you or forsake you. 

Do not fear or be dismayed." 

Deut.31:8