NIGHT WATCH – Clive Langmead

Alone,
Before You and the world.

The small hours watch leaves me standing,
A solitary speck on a speckless sea,
A single mind alert for possibilities
That none, save You, can see.
A chance to lean and think and contemplate the sky,
and daunt the mind with those age-old fears
of Your immense display.

Some peace here Lord, I know.
Some quiet…
Even so, I’m not at rest,
I must concern myself with cares:
Of home, of life, of ladders of success…

Lord,
I know I need them not,
And yet…

Help me to take the silence of this night
Into my soul,
And trust, in peace, until the coming of the Light.