A Bedside Prayer

 

~As yet another day comes to end

to God a prayer I do send~

~I pray another day will come

and bring Goodwill to everyone~

~My children will grow up to be strong

practice the knowledge of right from wrong~

~My life will be long enough to see

my youngest daughter earn a degree~

~That those of the hungry will be fed

and no longer their pains to be dread~

~For peace on earth to come to be

so all mankind kind can be free~

~I give thanks for my children born

for my life in them has been adorn~

~For giving me those special gifts

for they have been my total bliss~

~In ending I ask my soul to take

if I should die before I wake~

              ~Amen~

Duke Sherman