I Sing to You When Words Are Not Enough

September 30, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, which begins on the evening of September 29.  The ten days between Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year) and Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement) are a time when one’s repentance may affect whether one is written into the book of life or the book of death for the coming year.

Today’s poem is about the music of prayer.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

I sing to You when words are not enough,

When my heart’s so full they flow into a song,

When I lose myself in love, and what I say

Must be as beautiful as what I feel.

Your words must be music.

I hear it in prayer.

It is through its beauty

I know that You’re there.

I sing to You when words are not enough,

When all I am must turn to melody

To tell You all the things I want to tell You,

The truth of me, which You already know.

Your words must be music,

Your thoughts must be song.

I hear it while singing

And follow along.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/isingt.html. For more poems about religion, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/religiouspoems.html .

This week’s theme: Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement

September 25: Holiness and Faith Are the Rewards

September 26: How Might I, in Faith, Do as You Ask

September 27: You’d Like a Shot at Serious Redemption

September 28: You Are Not, Will Not, Do Not What You Dream

September 29: You Cannot Be the Person You Might Wish

September 30: I Sing to You When Words Are Not Enough