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The Favor
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By Connie Hinnen Cook
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The Favor

 

Now God, I ain't no prayin' man,
guess I git by the best I can,
But Tildy, God, she's got real sick
and doc says she could go right quick,
O, God! he says thet she might die!
my Tildy-gal, my honey-pie!

It was our boy, our young son Ben,
the day he died, she took ill then,
Thet bear was huge! I shot a round,
but even with my trusty hound,
Thet monster chonked on young Ben's head
an' jest like thet, my boy wuz dead.

Then Tildy took to grievin' so,
she turned to stone, she got so low,
She couldn't sleep, she couldn't speak,
she couldn't eat ~ she got so weak
She couldn't budge thet rockin' chair,
all's she could do wuz slump an' stare.

Now I don't claim to know Yore ways,
but I got skeered an' prayed fer days
Thet Yew might resurrect my boy,
give back my wife, restore her joy,
A second chance to start agin,
jest like Yew did fer Lazarus' kin.

It got so folks'd all steer clear,
when they eyed me, they'd disappear!
They'd call me daft, tetched in the head,
they'd tell me thet my son wuz dead,
They'd say, "Ben's gone! Git on with life!"
then ask after my ailin' wife.

My Tildy-gal, light on her feet,
the purtiest gal yew'd hope to meet,
My Tildy, sweet an' sassy, she,
(broke grown men's hearts when she picked me!)
My Tildy, with the laughin' eyes,
God, I won't make it if she dies.

She's all I got, all I hold dear,
so God, could Yew see Yore way clear:
If Tildy's days are over, then
I'd reckon it a favor ~ when
Yew take my Tildy home with Yew...
could Yew come back an' fetch me, too?

--Connie

"Hope deferred maketh the heart sick."
(Proverbs 13:12 KJV)


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Submitted: Thursday, May 18, 2006

Last Updated: Thursday, May 18, 2006

About the Poet
IN MEMORIAM I'm just a servant of the Lord that wants to magnify Him through poetry, and to cause others to focus on Him.


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