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[tha16thletter]

If this is human nature than I curse my humanity,
Dancing in twinkling prisms ‘tween my madness and my sanity,
my vanity has led me many times to tortured acts of sin,
I often times will repent then simply do it again,
and so let us begin;
like that one time that I turned my back on my best of friends,
(He deserved it!)
or when I stepped on others just to make it to my own ends,
(If the ends justify the means, right?)
maybe all of the times that I wanted those things which I cannot have,
(They’re nice though...)
giving into a false sadness when I should smile and be glad
for all the things given to me, whether my life is hard,
compared to others really is life really that hard?
(It’s hard enough!)
Forgive me for the occasions when I failed to turn to You,
and it is for those occasions I deserve to burn thorough through and through;
but yet, You always give me just one more chance,
one more turn and one more grasp to reach that perfection-
another opportunity to fix my once wobbling stance
and one more try to rewrite my past to seek that correction-
I am a man of might but often times stumble badly where I walk,
forgive me for envisioning my enemies lined in chalk,
You know that my true intentions aren’t truly that
these same people that I’m hatin’ have been where I’ve been,
they’ve sat where I’ve sat-
they’re just like me, they have their personal demons and devils,
so in anger and hatred I will not revel-
I rest my cards in your hand, I trust that You’ll play them well,
You can see when the prices plummet, before then You always sell
even though many times we whine because we cannot see
all the things that you have genuinely caused to come to pass-
However I ask:
Why do we not love each other?
Why do we play favorites?
Why can’t we help our hurting brother?
Why do we always shun life, not savor it?
We waiver all good things in this life ‘cause we’re just so f***ed up,
Excuse my language but it really is just so f***ed up,
Your grace and mercy has got to be shining for us to even be,
I know I don’t always remember to pray before I sleep
Regardless another harmless night of peaceful rest you give,
I’m amazed that with all this that I’ve done you still allow me to live-
I have so much to live for, although sometimes I feel,
that some of the things are just too good for them to be real,
my health,
my competence,
my independence
as well as my wealth
not physical wealth but you sent me simply the finest of choices,
the most beautiful and magnificent of all your cherubic voices,
I promise I’ll send her back in near to perfect condition,
I can’t promise perfection, You know that would be a case of false wishin’,
Thank You for the guiding hand, the shoes for which to step in,
well, I don’t need a piece when I got my spiritual weapon,
I pray to see the sunshine of yet another great day,
so please keep me in your care ‘til then.... Amen.
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Was listenin' to DMX in the car, heard one of his prayers and it moved me to write. Hope you like

[blindman]

Typical 16th letter, very deep, very long but worthwile and very human. I know DMX writes lots of prayers, and i think its great that you got your inspiration from him.
I got to say that this is very good stuff...like i said before man keep up your visions, you've got a lot to tell. If you haven't already .

[tha16thletter]

Thanks a lot my friend... always appreciate the feedback. Glad to see someone moving in here. I'll keep the inspiration rollin'

[blindman]

I always check around the Fanfiction page man well, keep 'em coming man, i like your stories/poems/"letters" good stuff.

[Hylas]

Sorry if I ask this, but are you a religious person? I mean, someone writes about god but he hasn't a clue about it and he doesn't care for it the rest of the time. While writing this, or poems with similar content, for a religious person is a different matter. It would change the perspective of the reader regarding your poem, I suppose, but you don't have to answer

[tha16thletter]

I'm not particularly 'religious' per se, although I do go to Church, and am part of the baptist religion. I am, however, very spiritual. I mean, I am not huge on the structure of 'religion', but I am on it's thinking and the such. Kind of hard to articulate, but that's how I see it.

[Rei]

Even if I think these themes are not particularly original (but you said yourself you were inspired by a song, after all) I see some true sincerity in it, which is always a good thing: it means at least you really think what you're writing about, which is not so common, considering most people that write anything about God are only doing it for sounding cool (discussing about religious matters gives them this impression) and for the rest of the time they don't give a damn about it

[Black Heart]

Cool work, I like it!