I pray for Ukraine,
that each blade of grass,
flowers, bees and beetles,
birds and butterflies .
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I pray for their protection
against the avalanche
of violence and vile
destruction.
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I pray for each small child,
girl or boy, their school,
hospital, park and their
climbing tree.
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I pray for their safety,
in the minds, bodies,
and, cast away from families,
to be safe from harm.
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I pray for the mothers, who
wait by the phone,
fathers, changing a job
for tanks, missiles and a gun.
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I pray for their hearts
that they don’t break,
that the abusive powers
relent – speaking words of peace.
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I pray for the medics,
short of supplies,
for the vets who cannot
save bomb blasted pets.
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I pray that they’ve
healing hands, their touch
to be as Christ, – in the absence
of enough of everything.
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I pray for the governments,
choices they are making,
to save a people or
bury them in ash.
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I pray for them to see with
a frightened child’s eyes,
to hear the cries with a
shattered mother’s heart.
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I pray for the world powers,
to put aside their quarrels,
to open negotiations,
and work solely for peace.
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Prayer is a voice in the wilderness,
a light in the darkness
and always on the front line
of any battle for any life.