This Prayer
By Tara Nicole Walker
Dedicated to Preston Hunt
8.7.2002
Screw up once
Shame on you
Screw up twice
Shame on me
Any more
And you know it's my fault
And that there's really nothing
Left to see
How is it
That I always seem
To hurt everything
And everyone that I love?
It's like tradition
Or even fate
To take something good
And make it course and rough
I can't win
It seems to be my nature
To lose
And abuse
I don't want to break hearts
Or hurt anyone at all
I want to give up on love
What's the use?
I didn't want to hurt him
But I thought I was doing
Maybe something
Right for once
But then I met him
And things changed
He treats me right and gives me what I need
And when I close my eyes his face my mind haunts
I like him a lot
But yet I do not love
I care for him deeply
I honestly do
Yet I still love him
But right now I must forget
And not compare
And to him stay true
I've messed up yet again
Please turn this to something good
Let something go right
And keep me from hurting them any more
Just listen to this prayer
And let me do something right
Just this one thing
Even if nothing more