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"God Are You Willing" by Antonette Williams

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Published May 15th, 2025

Shakespeare's Pen: Africa Contest – First Place

God Are You Willing

by Antonette Williams

God are you willing.
To grant an old sinner your hand.
To take me home instead by chance.

God are you willing.
To look down at me.
And hear my plea.

God are you willing, to take a break and sit for tea?
If you do, will you allow me to see, and perhaps bring her to me.

God are you willing.
To take my sorrow.
And grant me one more tomorrow.

God are you willing
To take my wounds
And bound them to a promise
Of one less lonelier tomorrow.

God I know you are willing
To help me understand.
What happens with your plans.
And why I'm left hollow.
Bound by unsure tomorrows.

God are you willing.
To let me look.
To let me see.
How our last story could have been.

God are you willing.
To keep her safe and kiss her goodnight.
And grant me a wish on a starry night.

God are you willing.
To have me say,
I miss her and I want her to stay.
God are you willing.
To lend a hand, to a broken daughter, mother, and friend in grand.

God I would be willing.
To understand
How this happens and all your plans.
I would sit and wonder and hear your voice.
My child, this was my choice.
You wanted her home while we were left all alone.

God I am willing to stand.
To know and understand life's greater plan.


About the Poet
Antonette Williams resides in Centurion, Gauteng, South Africa.
Read the poet's biography on Antonette Williams's Artist Page.

This poem is the winner of the first Shakespeare's Pen: Africa Contest, hosted by South Africa Poetry Magazine. Read all the winning poems in the Legends of Shakespeare's Pen 2025.

Previously published in South Africa Poetry Magazine:
Cloudburst

by Zuziwe Ngema

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