Prayers

Prayers become less sweeping and greedy
when the devastation of the world emerges again.
How to be human is to live by a thread. 
Forget “happiness,” “success” and “glory,”
I pray you are all safe, secure, and healthy. 
The words catch in my throat because I love you so much,
and after my nightmare nights, 
there is great comfort in my small, unobtrusive life: 
I devote myself to the worthy, impossible dream of protection.