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BEDTIME PRAYER

by Charles Carreon

Now I lay me

Down

To

Sleep,

I pray the Lord

My soul

To

Keep.

If dawn should catch me

   Once again,

I pray I'll meet it

   With a friend.

   If sorrow makes it's bed with me

I pray to meet it fearlessly;

   If solid earth should fall away

I pray to find a grasp somewhere;

And if this moment fades to stay,

Leaving my name to dust among

   the voices of the living,

I pray that I will yet

   Partake in the sacrament

of giving.

 

(Summer, 1986)

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