Remember to Pray Before Bed

If only you could see my dreams, the really bad ones

The nightmares I’ve faced and tried to escape

Lately, they’ve been more frequent and

More disturbing because my friend

Aly, has seen them too, when I

Died, abandoned lakeside

As my little sisters

Struggled, sadly

Madly, to grip

Reality.

Last night,

I tried to save

The cats from the house,

The neighbor's, where the door

At the back is always open just a crack

And the pungent smells and secrets told well

Come creeping out into the yard strewn with cans.

I couldn’t make it in time, the bomb nearly blew.

Unfortunately, I had lost both my shoes

Inside that dilapidated house and

I ran back to get them before

We all took off in the van

Before I could finish

College and

Graduate.

Even worse,

The things I see

While awake, like what’s

At stake as this country crumbles

Our leader smiles and stumbles across

The world’s stage while the summer of rage

Kicks off with a great start by tearing apart all

The families and broken bodies of the ones

Too small or shy to help themselves

The stores’ empty shelves say

“They’ll all be dead soon”

Because mothers look

To the moon for

Answers, but

Remember

To never

Pray.