As long as Bangkok thrives
Exploiting young girl’s lives
Mormons peddle cult lies
Role call to count their wives
I will pray for the world today
As long as T.V. is reality
That won’t stop bothering me
America’s favorite family
pushing Ozzy values on MTV
I will pray for the world today
As long as Afghans are war torn
Babies fear the day they’re born
Raped mothers they mourn
Brazilian boys are forced in porn
I will pray for the world today
As long as mom and dad
Throw away love they had
If forgiveness is just a fad
I will sing this prayer song sad
I will pray for the world today
As long as crack whores are addicted
Until no more poor are evicted
HIV kids are afflicted
Repeat offenders aren’t convicted
I will pray for the world today
As long as the church sits idly by
Building bigger Babels to the sky
Teens are partial to their peers
Glean their hope from Brittany Spears
I will pray for the world today
As long as Communists are closed to freedom
Starving kids line up but no one feeds umm
Slave girls are made in Ghana
To serve fetish priests and do what they wanna
I will pray for the world today
As long as villages need wells to dig
Drink the same rivers as a pig
Landmine war wounds grow gangrene
Buddhist babies have no vaccine
I will pray for the world today
As long as we have disposable cash
Refugees roam in rain and ash
Our precious hard earned 401k
Is the biggest hope in our lives today
I will pray for the world today
I really enjoyed your poem. We live in such a needy world! I would like to have seen another stanza at the end proclaiming hope for the world. What difference can our prayers make?
