#BlogElul Day 16:Pray

          Prayer

Pray for those who eat the leftovers 

Pray for the woman wrapped in a blanket

with a park bench as a bed

Pray for the child with the hollow chest

and eyes that bulge

Pray for those who live with no walls

Pray for those who refuse to see,

for those who can’t hear the footfalls,

for those who walk past the  man

who sits on the sidewalk with a cup 

and a  cardboard sign--

Homeless and Hungry

Pray for forgiveness 

for all the times we meant to give

Pray for the times we didn’t speak,

didn’t make eye contact

And I pray for forgiveness for thinking

that it is the other who too often forgets