A Nameless Prayer (for a new year)

Hope for a true dawn

Of a world, brave and new

Where children do not

Shrink and scream,

Cowering behind school desks,

As madness stalks

Corridors of Learning, hallowed.

I dream.

Of the bright evenings

And nights smiling,

When She can walk,

Laugh and dream,

Of happy tomorrows,

Whether alone, or not.

I dream.

Of verdant freshness,

Fickle, coquettish seas.

Cool shade of scorching summer

And the radiance of the winter morns.

Rains singing songs, familiar and new;

Storms playing drama queen.

Shooting stars and wishes naive.

I dream.

Dream and hope and wish,

And pray.

Amen.