Words of Art – Day 91 – Prayer

Prayer

Do prayers work?
If so, how often?
What is the average?
If one hundred prayers get prayed,
How many get answered?
One out of a hundred?
Ten?

I think of all the prayers being prayed
In Darfur or Iraq.
How often do they stop the death squads?
How often do they stop the bullet?
How often do they stop the rape?
I pray tonight that prayer
Works more often than not.
But if it doesn’t work
More often than not,
Then my prayer of prayer
Just landed in a land called Limbo.

Roy W. Backes
© 2007