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A Prayer For Love

November 15, 2011
By amahzing_grace GOLD, Prattville, Alabama
amahzing_grace GOLD, Prattville, Alabama
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Favorite Quote:
I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.
-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart


My heart longs for love
It’s captured my head.
I pray to God above
When I go to bed.

I pray for somebody
To enter my life.
Someone not too gaudy
To take away the strife.

I pray for somebody
To hold my hand.
To pull me off my knees
To help me stand.

I pray for God
To send down a man.
Who’s not too odd
I’ll search all the land.

I’ll search all the land
For the perfect one
Who’ll hold my hand
Who’ll call me his hon.

Love is the thing
For which I plea.
It can humble a king
When he receives a key.

A key to her heart
Is what I speak of.
It’s like an art
This thing called love.

Everyone wants it
But do they understand?
You can’t back down a bit
You have to stand.

You have to stand
For what you love.
You have to grab their hand
And say “let’s fly like a dove.”

We’ll fly high
Above everyone.
We’ll touch the sky
We’ll reach the sun.

No one can bring you down
When you’re in love.
It’s like a clumsy clown
Trying to catch a swift dove.

Now do you see
Why I want it?
God always hears my plea
He knows when to give it but…..

My heart longs for love
It’s captured my head
I pray to God above
When I go to bed.



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Kinzi GOLD said...
on Mar. 17 2012 at 8:21 am
Kinzi GOLD, Cairo, Other
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Favorite Quote:
“There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.” -J.R.R. Tolkien

“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.” -Mother Teresa

This was really quite a good poem! I liked your use of repitition of the first stanza for the last stanza, and I also like the repitition you use for a couple of the important lines, "I'll search all the land" and "You have to stand". The whole concept itself was great, but I feel like the rhyme kinda weakened your poem a little bit... There were a few lines where I feel like you could have conveyed what you were trying to say better but because of the rhyme you had to settle for not as strong words. An example that sticks out to me is "You have to stand/ For what you love/ You have to grab their hand/ And say 'let's fly like a dove'" 

 

Other than that though, great poem. =]


on Mar. 1 2012 at 10:39 am
loveissmiles GOLD, Lynn, Indiana
13 articles 0 photos 102 comments

Favorite Quote:
"I live for the nights I can't remember with the people I will never forget." -Carassisa M-<3

"What the mind can perceive, the body can achieve." -Softball Coach Steve B-

i absolutely adore the repititiveness that appears at the end and beginning of some of your stanzas! Wonderful idea! :D keep writing. !! :D

on Feb. 6 2012 at 7:53 am
SuNshiNe007 ELITE, Magee Ms., Mississippi
120 articles 0 photos 306 comments

Favorite Quote:
Never Give Up, And Know That God Will Always Love You!

Wow! This is beautiful! I love it! And I love the wording you chose it flows smoothly:) Great Job!

on Feb. 5 2012 at 1:33 am
amahzing_grace GOLD, Prattville, Alabama
12 articles 0 photos 25 comments

Favorite Quote:
I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.
-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Thanks (: it took me a long time to figure out how to word it!!

on Feb. 4 2012 at 5:41 pm
beautifulspirit PLATINUM, Alpharetta, Georgia
35 articles 0 photos 1398 comments

Favorite Quote:
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
--Eleanor Roosevelt

Interesting~ In your plea to God you ask for love---something we all pray and wait for. The One, our other half... The reader will relate to this easy with no problem. I like this poem very much~ Great job.