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We pray for the children
We pray for children
who sneak popsicles
before supper,
who erase holes in
math workbooks,
who can never find
their shoes.
And we pray for those
who stare at photographers
from behind barbed wire,
who can't bound down
the street in a new pair of sneakers,
who never "counted
potatoes,"
who never go to the
circus,
who live in an X-rated
world.
We pray for children
who bring us sticky
kisses and fistfuls of dandelions,
who hug us in a hurry
and forget their lunch money.
And we pray for those
who never get dessert,
who have no safe blankets
to drag behind them,
who watch their parents
watch them die,
who can't find any
bread to steal,
who don't have any
rooms to clean up,
whose pictures aren't
on anybody's dresser,
whose monsters are
real.
We pray for children
who spend all their
allowance before Tuesday,
who throw tantrums
in the grocery store and pick at their food,
who like ghost stories,
who shove dirty clothes
under the bed, and never rinse out the tub,
who get visits form
the tooth fairy,
who don't like to
be kissed in front of the car pool,
who squirm in church
or temple and scream on the phone,
whose tears we sometimes
laugh at and whose smiles can make us cry.
And we pray for those
whose nightmares come
in the daytime,
who will eat anything,
who have never seen
a dentist,
who aren't spoiled
by anybody,
who go to bed hungry
and cry themselves to sleep,
who live and move,
but have no being.
We pray for children who want to be carried,
and for those who
must,
for those we never
give up on and for those who don't get a
second chance.
For those we smother...and
for those who will grab the hand
of anybody kind enough
to offer it.
-Ina J. Hughs
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