now i ain’t trying to tell you how to raise your child lord knows i’ve always supported whatever you’ve done even when you were dating that butt ugly hospital vp i stood by your side but i couldn’t help but overhear how you were teaching your child how to say prayers so please forgive me this one time but child that line about if i die before i wake surely is going to keep that child awake i mean who in the hell would want to close their eyes with that threat of dying hanging over your bed forget what’s under it it’s what’s waiting when you close your eyes that would make you wet the bed not the monster in your head not even with the light on would anyone want to sleep so maybe you want to repeat some prayer about how god cares and shares angels to protect you throughout the night that would surely take care of most of the night’s frights
now lord
why don’t you
show
some heart
and
keep my friends
from
falling apart
ain’t asking much
like raising
the dead and such
just asking
for
a little mercy
can’t stand to see
my friends
falling apart
so
why not
show some
of
that divine
heart
and keep them
and
pain
apart
those of you expecting god to intervene on your behalf during a personal crisis or protect you from harm’s way such as floods poverty or viruses please note that your prayers have been duly noted registered and certified as sincere however please recall that there is a restraining order in place so we’ll not be able to perform the requested actions on earth until judgment day thanks for your patience
oh my lord what a barge of bombastic words child i ain’t never heard anything like it laying out the sins of others on the altar of shame before god and everybody not one eardrum was spared now it may have been for their own good cause there was the asking for forgiveness but i thought it was just a closing prayer
parched for a taste of hope humans will consume poisonous lies or even swear a mirage is real long before the madness has set in others will take the sacrament of sports where nothing has a consecrated element just gladiators and lions to distract their minds away from what they truly thirst for some tangible answer to their prayers
his prayers never saved a single soul nor kept death from the doors of those he loved his devotions to the divine were his hopes offered to his beliefs not to any one god just a simple contract with himself so as to have a reason for awakening
gather up the clouds so we may darken the sky another soul’s died no one ever known to you just another nameless face but i implore you to offer a simple prayer that those loved can heal