Lord, if you will.
You can make me clean.
I will.
Jesus replied, be clean.

And immediately.
The leprosy left.
Finally.
He was no longer bereft.

Do we have the courage.
Like the leper.
To ask, to engage.
Not pause or temper.

Or do we pass by.
And go on living whatever is our lie.

……

Lord please if you will.
You can make me clean, you can
But then do we ask

…….

See Luke 5 : 12-16