Good Night Tune

When I rap out loud

I'm funny and proud

but when I write instead

it gets turned on it's head

I lose my sense of fun

turn solemn

like a Roman column

not a tune you can hum.

I could rhyme all day

it's my approach - my way

but do I really have what to say?

does that stop anyone anyway?

I am sick with a cold

feeling worn feeling old

getting ready for bed

thoughts swirling, being retread.

as I lay down I pray for peace

in the north, south, west, and east.

I pray for you and I pray for him

I pray for the bright and for the dim

I pray with and without words

I pray prayers I want and don't want heard.

As I lay me down to sleep

I pray with my mouth and with my feet

I pray for a heart and for a soul

for the broken and for the whole

for the world and for the village

for the touchdown and the scrimmage.

I'm not really a sports fan

but I appreciate that an athlete needs a plan.

Everyone needs to look ahead

and think before what you say's been said

plan for the future let go of the past

vacuum the dust of the dreams that didn't last.

Desmond Tutu said the vacuum line

I learned it today and it's been on my mind

now I really have to go

end this little imagined show.

May everyone I love

be blessed with grace from G-d above.