Prayer

*(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..