A Prayer For Japan Poem by Walterrean Salley

Lord, look upon
The people of Japan,
Who’ve suffered ruin
Across their land.
Only You
Can make a way.
Provide their needs
Every day.

Food and shelter.
Blankets and water.
Restore the power
That’s out of order.
In light of so much
Suffering and pain.
Lord, please make
Their purpose plain.

For those enduring
A loved-one lost,
Help them, Father,
To bear the cost.
And those missing
Who’re to be found,
Preserve as rescuers
Scour grounds.

Cities ravished
By the quake,
And destroyed
In the tsunami‘s wake:
Sendai, Miyako,
Hatori, Keota—
Soma, Tokyo,
Hashimoto.
And all that aren't
Mentioned by name,
I pray for those
Just the same.
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