Adam's Kingdom: Clay and Main

"Prayer of Protection" - Artwork by Milagros Palmieri

Clay and Main

I want to write a new testament of changes made in your name

About the new life I live and about the God I dance with

I feel like a child, so full of life...animated and free

You answer every prayer, and for that I am grateful

Every day I pray to you passing the corner of Clay and Main

I meditate going Sunday driving speeds as cars pass me by

I cannot get past that street unless I lift my voice and praise your love for me

I ask and receive blessings, and it never is forgotten

Even though my friends doubt you exist

And these words may cause discomfort for some

I proclaim my faith not as an affront to shame or disclaim

Your beliefs, but I am simply expounding upon what drives me

Past those streets every day...

It is what gives me the courage to speak

And go beyond what any doctor or shrink has done for me

And so I plead do not turn away in hatred, my brothers and sisters

Though I walk the path of Christ I hear your doubts and I hear them well

I am not here to place judgment upon you or convert you to my side

I am simply sharing a part of who I am, which has given me new life

I trust that you will know that I speak out of love when I say

That I have no intention of changing you, and in fact I never could

But God bides his time and his path is there for you to decide

And if you deny that it exists, I’ll love and accept you regardless, but please know this

Respect my sensibility and the reality of my deepest relationship

I am closer to him than two lovers intertwined

When your words cast him aside, you cast me aside, and it hurts

I love you my atheist brothers and sisters, and I wouldn't change you for the world

Everyone finds their own path in the end, we will all meet at death’s door in due time

Regardless of what we believe...I know this…that we should all live as one and coexist

Otherwise we will give into petty differences, and what we all need is love

So I will continue to pray when I pass the corner of Clay and Main

I will continue speaking to the one who hears my every thought and who knows my name

You will go on in this world singularly as one individual on your own

But this I do know, we will never truly ever be alone

Love is the great uniter when passion’s heat divides

And perhaps we shall all in the end meet, by and by...

Adam's Kingdom