"And I Saw Not"

Hope for a world grown cynically cold,
Hungry for power and greedy for gold,
Faith to believe when, within and without,
There's a nameless fear in a world of doubt.
Love that is bigger than race or creed
To cover the world and fulfill each need.
God grant these gifts of faith, hope and love,
Three things this world has so little of,
For only these gifts from our father above
Can turn man's from hatred to love...

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace, where there is hatred let me sow love. Where there is injury,pardon....Saint Francis of Assisi

© Anthony C. Mar 21, 1998