The Pastor's Wife | Melancholy Poems

The Pastor's Young Wife in Prayer

Each day the pastor wakes at dawn

when the world is pure and clean.

In the sleepy glow of sunrise

he looks with love at his young bride

and listens to her gentle breathing.

But he knows his work is to redeem

his soul and to save the souls of others.

He kisses her softly on the cheek

and every day like before, he goes out

to the world to do the work of God.

In times of sadness and in times of joy

his faithful and chaste wife

always stands beside the pastor

her loving shepherd and her lord.

But each night in her lonely hour

she clasps her hands in humble prayer

and begs Him to remind the pastor

that her flesh and soul are sisters

and when the flesh is starved of loving

her love-starved soul goes hungry too.