Tuesday, October 1, 2019

I Pray for the Impossible


I pray for the impossible
for Haiti and her people,
that 7-year-old boys would have fathers
and 14-year-old girls would not be mothers;
that we would know hunger for only righteousness
and be thirsty only for goodness;
that our politicians would be true leaders
and make of our land a common treasure;
that like snow in foreign countries,
our hurricanes would be no calamities;
that street odors would be as perfume
and all litter banished 
to bins made of plaster.

I pray for the impossible—
except it’s not really,
not to You, at least.
And it is to You alone that I pray.

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