*(A Child’s Prayer)*
**Verse 1:**
*Daddy’s gone, oh Mama, why?*
*Why’s the sky so full of cries?*
*Why do shadows on the wall*
*Look like giants, tall and cold?*
**Chorus:**
*Sleep, my world, don’t fade to gray,*
*I don’t want the thunder’s rage.*
*Dream, my light, don’t turn to dust,*
*I don’t want war’s morning crust.*
**Verse 2:**
*Mama, what’s a "war" to me?*
*Is it when no birds can sing?*
*Is it when my crayons break,*
*Or when you don’t wake at eight?*
**Chorus:** *(repeat)*
**Bridge:**
*Papa, can I shout "Enough!"?*
*Will the wind hear my small voice?*
*Maybe guns will turn to rust,*
*Maybe flowers’ll bloom for us...*
**Final Chorus:** *(softly, like a whisper)*
*Sleep, my world, don’t fade to gray...*
*I don’t want the thunder’s rage..