Buy Me A World Poem by Patti Masterman

Buy me a world, brave Mother dear,
With mountains and valleys and seas:
It will take all you have now, there and here;
Only a universe comes free.

Find me a true love, Father dear,
One who will never stray;
It will take all your hours, never fear,
Till the end of the last man's day.

Give me a mind unwavering, God;
One which will always be wise-
Made from the sky and the lowly clod,
And the reckless wind's own sigh.