📜 "Even the Unworthy Are Heard"
(Inspired by Shamati 113 – “The Eighteen Prayer”)
They say He hears each mouth that prays,
Yet mercy seals what He conveys.
Then what of cries that lack the grace—
Do they just vanish into space?
A twisted path, this narrow gate,
Where love and judgment intertwine with fate.
One moment lifted, next laid low—
The opposites are all we know.
To be so humble we disappear,
Yet roar with truth when friends draw near.
To bow before the least of men,
Yet hold the world and start again.
Our words may fail, intentions rot,
But still He hears—no soul forgot.
The filth, the pride, the broken pleas,
He drinks them all like storm-tossed seas.
This is the weight, the work, the song—
To know we're weak, yet still belong.
To cry with lips that once deceived—
And be embraced, though not believed.
So if you find your prayer denied,
Or mercy masked, or hope has died—
Know this, dear heart: He bends His ear
Most close to those who drown in fear.