WOMAN'S PRAYER
I Pray
I pray
For our Earth Mother
I pray for her to recover from
The destruction and exploitation
Brought on by the colonizers
I Pray
For all our ancestors
Who were murdered by invaders
For control of their land
And natural resources
I pray
For those beaten
Incarcerated and tortured
For their continued resistance
I Pray
For their spirit to be instilled
In everyone of us here today
I Pray
For the children
Those they fed to dogs
Massacred in
Those orphaned by war
I pray for the future generations
I Pray
For all women
Whose bodies become the battlefield
For those raped at the border, prisons
And their own bedrooms
It hurts me to see my sisters
Selling themselves
Hooked on drugs
To continue living
I pray for none of them to die tonight
I Pray
For all the sexually abused children
I pray for them
Not to blame themselves
And their predators be punished
I Pray
For all the women
Who are beat by the ones they love
I pray for them
To learn to love themselves
I Pray
for my voice to no longer be trapped
to rid myself
of this bitterness on my tongue
I can no longer be silent
Because a few of us have escaped it
It does not negate world hunger and poverty
Caused by corporate globilization
Where fighting for survival
Is considered terrorism
When our labor and bodies
As well as democracy and justice
Are up for sale
To the highest bidder
I pray
For all our people with AIDS and cancer
I pray not for a cure
But a way of living
Where neither would exist
I pray
For all our people
Who are homeless on our land
What will it take
For you to finally take a stand
I Pray
For a different way of seeing this life
I pray
For the day I am truly free
A day when we all live in harmony
A day where I am not controlled
By fear
Fear of what I think
Fear of What I say
Fear of who I am
Fear of who I love
Creator please give me energy
And guidance
To walk on this path called life
I pray