Who sneak popsicles before dinner
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 are born in places where we wouldn't be caught dead
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 safety blanket 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 their next allowance day
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 from the tooth fairy
Who don't like to be kissed in front of the carpool
Who squirm in church and scream into 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 anyone
Who go to bed hungry and cry themselves to sleep
We pray for children...
Who want to be carried and for those who must be
For those who never give up and for those who don't get a second chance
For those we smother with love and for those who will grab the hand of anyone kind enough to offer it
Adapted from a prayer by Ina Hughes
Page By Mary Jones
2004
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