Prayer for Despair

Prayer for Despair

I have been rejected and despised;

I am hurting and destroyed by the pain.

I am angry with ohters and with you; o God,

for there is no comfort, none anywhere.

I call your name and you are absent.

I wonder why you let me suffer so.

My cries echo in the universe

and ring in my ears

and I am weary of the taste of my tears.

Hear my plea, o God of love.

Let me not be destroyed

by this agony on the brink of death.

I am like a broken reed,

fragile and crushed.

Hear my plea, o God of love.

Let me not be destroyed.

Amen