My Friend

I have come to You to take Your touch before I begin my day.

Let Your eyes rest upon my eyes for a while.

Let me take to my work the assurance of Your comradeship, my Friend.

Fill my mind with Your music to last through the desert of noise.

Let Your love's sunshine kiss the peaks of my thoughts and linger in my life's valley where the harvest ripens. 

Rabindranath Tagore

The Heart of God: Prayers of Rabindranath Tagore. Selected and edited by Herbert F. Vetter. © 1997 Herbert F. Vetter. Tuttle Publishing.