IF ONLY I HAD KNOWN YOU

Lord,
I crawled
  across the barrenness
    to You
    with my empty cup
  uncertain
  in asking
  any small drop
Of refreshment.

If only
I had known You
  better
I'd have come
Running
With a bucket.

—Nancy Spiegelberg

"...my cup runneth over."
Psalm 23:5

©1974 Nancy Spiegelberg