"Prayer"
O God –
It is surely difficult trying to think of some way to keep you entertained.
You have heard it all before, but we have heard praying makes you happy.
So hear we find ourselves praying, for all the good it may do us –
Time we learned to pray, but keep on hoeing.
Still, there ought to be some communication.
I know an old tale has it that you created storytellers because you love stories –
And it seems to me you might enjoy a laugh once in a while, too, if only you know how.
But you always were one for leaving things up to us.
We have to tell the stories and the jokes ourselves.
Oh, you play jokes all right, but looks like most of the jokes you play on people just aren’t funny.
So now, then, we may just play one on you, like when I count to three, coming read or not:
We’ll all just make you disappear when I say “go”—a kind of reverse hide and seek.
And, well, I hope our doing that disappearing trick on you is for some good; you do it so regularly to us.
So here it goes: One…Two…Three…
