And We Pray

And we pray...
We pray for the continued opportunity to pray
We pray for the chance to again and again receive favor
We collect
We congregate
We pray
And we say our testimonies
We sing our hearts out
Be it for rehearsals or actual ceremonies
We yell and scream our hearts out
Wait...
We YELL and SCREAM our hearts out?
In God's holy sanctuary?
Infiltration by Satan's sanctimonious soldier
An evil who thought himself the beholder of life and death
It seems to the voice of reason he was deaf
As he left blood spilled and families shortened we prayed
We prayed for mercy
We prayed for the nightmare to end
We prayed for the hate in his heart to lessen
We prayed for the detestable look in his eye to vanish simply because we were different
And then we prayed no more from Earthly bodies
From the heavens above we look in fear
Because we now know fear is lurking around every corner
Fear has infested protective forces
And now fear has invaded protective housing
So we pray for the souls that remain
And we pray for protection from the evil onlookers that only see "difference"
And we pray
And we pray
...and we pray

6/24/2015