Living Life Poetically: Unanswered Prayers

Reflect on all the things you’ve prayed for that never came to pass–those prayers that seem to have gone unanswered. It’s natural to feel disappointed and unheard. The poem “Unanswered Prayers” addresses those prayers that seem to fall on deaf ears.

Unanswered Prayers

We don’t always get what we want.
Our prayers seem unanswered.
Perhaps it’s with good reason, which we cannot see,
Our prayers go unrendered
No matter how many times we are on bended knee.

We don’t always get what we want.
Our prayers seem undetected.
But they are heard and answered indeed.
At times, in ways unexpected.
In ways we truly need.

By E. Ballay