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Answer me

On my knees, I ask that you please

Hear my desperate prayers and pleas

because this world is tearing me apart.

I am frantically trying to clutch on

To the little love left in my broken heart

But it is getting harder every day.

Please God! Tell me what I must pray!

How? Where? Am I getting it wrong?

Have you even been listening?

Because in the silence and the stillness

I have tried to wait for your patiently

But I have not yet felt your divinity

Intervening in my life.

Haven’t yet heard your voice weaving

Through the emptiness.

And Lord I feel lost in the shadows

A lost child

Beyond the reach of your love.

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Answering

Like always, you catch me by surprise

In the darkness you shine a light

And find me; welcome me as your daughter.

You ask me to wait faithfully not fearfully

Because like always, you have hopes and dreams for me.

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During the worse points, my faith always becomes a bit of a question mark. I wonder why God isn't really answering my prayers or why I feel so alone if God is always there? But I always seem to find that light again in unexpected ways. Answer me, in many ways, is a cry for help and it's accompanying piece, answering is the response.

Olu is a 23-year old British Nigerian woman. As a child, she struggled with speech and found a lot of comfort expressing how she felt through written words and drawing.

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