Surrender

Heavy of heart

She hangs her head
Hurting with a grief she can't share
Hiding an ache she can't bear.
Hear her tears splat on her prayer mat
As she serves her battered soul into the hands of her Lord.

Loneliness, like a snake

slitters through the empty caves of her heart.
While Fear's fangs choke at her throat.
Despair lay anywhere it dare
Since hope had fled.

But like autumn leaves she surrenders
Her will and her woes,
Waiting for winter's wind
To blow her burdens beyond yonder.