The Criminals Prayer Poem by Daniela X. Daraz

Heavenly Father, please hear me tonight,
I need so much guidance to live my life right.
Sometimes the pressure is to hard to bare,
I even often wonder if anyone cares.
How can I wake up and face another day,
Knowing I must live this crazy way?
Heavenly Father, forgive all my sins.

Give me strength to resist the crazy life I desire.
Help me escape temptation and the fire.
Please help my family, who's eyes silently plead,
For me not to do wrong, as they pray for me.
God bless my mother who cries every night,
worrying if I might be killed in a fight.

Heavenly Father, answer my prayers,
Please let me know your listening up there.
When will it end? Whats it all for?
To prove to my homies, 'I'm down? I'm hardcore? '.
Sometimes I wonder how I will die...
By a bullet to the chest, or a knife in my side?
Heavenly Father, please hear me tonight.

Show me the way Lord; show me the Light,
Give my heart peace so I don't have to fight.
Thank you for your forgiveness, and for being there.
But most of all, thank you for hearing my prayer.