another prayer

I live in a world of please believe,

where hope floats until it finally sinks.

I live in a world of reality

that overshadows my world of make believe

as fast as my eyes can blink.

I live in a world where I cannot survive

without hope for better things.

and I live in a world where hope sometimes dies

in the wake that disappointment brings.

I live in a world of no matter what happens around me,

I have to find a way to go on.

and I live in a world of black and white

and a world filled with right and wrong.

I live in this world that I do not always understand

and this world that I do not always like.

but I live in this world and it is what it is

on brightest day and darkest night.

this is the world that I walk in.

this is the world that I sink or swim in.

this is the world that I live in.

please god help me to live in it right.