A PRAYER FOR A STOUT HEART
How can I stake all my love, -
At the mercy of this fickle heart?
A heart that is delicate and fragile,
A heart that ignores the reasoning mind? !
A heart that feels both love and hate,
Gets ensnared by beauty and trapped by fate? !
A heart that changes its color and beat,
A heart which appears to be incomplete?
Faced with all those temptations of this world –
both spurious and pure,
How can my foolish heart distinguish and
endure?
So I prayed to the Lord to give me a heart that
is stout,
Like Richard the Lion Heart, both steadfast and
without doubt!
To wage a Crusade against all that is impure,
And abide by true love to forever endure!
- Raj Nandy
- New Delhi
- 20 Jan 09
These stream of words Touches everyone's heart This rhyme should be every day prayer. So true, we need a robust heart To frame a true love within.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
great opening lines and a sincere prayer for a stout heart that would withstand all. Raj, great message here.10 it kind of reminds me of one of Shakespeare's sonnets.can't recall the lines... Mamta