 | James Callahan Jan 1 | Before I sleep, I should probably pray
that's what Grandma said ends each day
but when she prayed she named so many
long gone, deceased, but I don't know any
she said that would change in due time
and to my protest she bet me a dime;
my woes and worries is what I should pray
mine were striking out in baseball today,
my failure to blow a big bubble gum bubble
and saying that word that got me in trouble;
hers were money, her children and time,
distance and loss, and personal crime,
her head bowed but no longer on knee
humbler than I (or should that be me)
as grammar was second but important still
just as a kind heart and a yielded will;
these are things which I naturally avoid
which probably make the almighty annoyed
but my dear Grandma took all this in stride
and she chalked it up to my childish pride,
which leaves me wonder what she would say
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