No Triumph

I am in search of prayers, and finding them in unlikely places.









Give me no gift of weapons

nor feelings of victory.

I want no triumph.

Let me fight, but lose!



Give me heroic stubbornness in love,

unending heart,

to give friendship without measure,

to forgive without end.



Only grant me strong bright senses

to bring happiness, to help, to hear the needs

of even a pulse-beat,

the call of any person!



                                                                                          (From the Mishkan T’filah)