NaPoWriMo Poetry Challenge Day 26: Help Me Find the Way

Note: NaPoWriMo Poetry Challenge officially ended April 30th but I was ill for almost 2 weeks and was not feeling creative. I saved the prompts and will be posting my poems simply because I like to finish what I start. 🙂

(If you still read them, I’m most appreciative!)

The prompt: “…write a poem that incorporates a call and response. Calls-and-responses are used in many sermons and hymns (and also in sea chanties!), in which the preacher or singer asks a question or makes an exclamation, and the audience responds with a specific, pre-determined response.”

“Help Me Find the Way”

I am screaming into the dark

wondering when there will be a light.

My heart is singing like a lark

and beating like wings in flight.

I close my eyes and pray,

(Please help me find the way)

every night and every day.

(please help me find the way)

They think I’m happy by my smile

and my laughter that bubbles loud;

but I’ve been in the shadows quite a while