Lord when you look (A prayer in the dark)

Lord, when you look

  (a prayer in the dark)

Lord, when you look down

 and see your children here

 in the dark, just shining 

through our tired out wicks, our wax hearts melted,

look and really look hard

and remember the stuff of which we are made, 

and that we are not encased in a glass, 

and that all of our stones

are markers from graves.

(I've forgotten how many)

look, and really look hard

and when you look, 

remember us

and heal.