An Agnostic's Prayer

In me, now is an insatiable thirst Searching you, lonely and longingly I stray To place you not in a shrine, but in my very innards So long I have been running away from you Taking devious turns, fleeing from your presence Now I discern, like a hound you were after me Through shadowed tunnels, you were following me That's why now I see you through the mist In me, now is an insatiable thirst To feel your love that serves as balm Madly I ran once, struggling to keep pace With the spinning world moving very fast To catch at the illusory pleasures Now my mind languishes in the prison of my own make And wearily I trudge through valleys dark With burdens heavy on my drooping shoulders In me, now is an insatiable thirst To hear your whispered words in deep quietude To calm my fears and to be filled with hope To feel your presence and to see you close To hold your hand and to be led by you To be held close like a babe to its mother To seek comfort, to find rest and to feel blest Finally to get united with you, Oh! Lord and my God!