A PRAYER FOR ALL
CHILDREN
We pray for children who put chocolate fingers everywhere
who like to be tickled
who stamp in puddles
who can never find their shoes.
We pray for children who stare at photographers from behind barbed wire
who have never counted potatoes
who are born in places in which we wouldn’t be seen dead
who never go to the cinema
who live in an X-rated world.
We pray for children who bring us sticky kisses and fistfuls of dandelions
who sleep with the dog and bury goldfish
who hug us in a hurry and forget their lunch money
who squeeze toothpaste all over the washbasin.
We pray for children who never had a pudding
who have no comfort blanket to drag behind them
who watch their parents watch them die
who can’t find any bread to steal
who don’t have any rooms to tidy
whose monsters are real.
We pray for children who spend their pocket money before Tuesday
who throw tantrums in supermarkets and pick at their food
who like ghost stories
who get visits from the tooth fairy
who don’t like being kissed in public
whose tears we sometimes laugh at
whose smiles sometimes make us cry.
We pray for children whose nightmares come in the daytime
who will eat anything
who have never been seen by a doctor
who aren’t spoiled by anybody
who go to bed hungry and cry themselves to sleep
who live and move but have no being.
We pray for children who want to be carried
and for those who must
for those we can never give up on
and for those who don’t get a second chance
for those we love to bits
and for those who will grab the hand of anybody kind enough to offer it.
We pray for all our children throughout the world,
We pray that you will make us worthy of them.
Quoted by Harry Lewis, Headmaster of Great Witley C of E
Primary School.
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