A Morning Prayer



                            A Morning Prayer                                                                                                                
 Thank you for watching over me Lord while I slept through the night.                                                                       
Please guide me today, to do what is right.                              
 I will try to be a good example, for all others to see.           Everything I do, will be done in the honor of thee.                                                 
 Greeting everyone I meet, with a kind word and a smile.   placing their shoes on my feet and walking that mile.         
 Inspire me today from expressing evil thoughts, word, or deeds.                                                                                           
 While helping me to recognize, what the other person needs.                                                                                           
 If I should die before this day ends.                                        I pray that you except me Lord as one of your friends.    
                                                                        M.S. Willard    

About this poem

Everyone knows the now I lay me down to sleep prayer said at night. I wanted to write one for the morning.

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Written on October 28, 1990

Submitted by michaels.95454 on December 07, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABBCDEEFG
Closest metre Iambic octameter
Characters 1,196
Words 121
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 9

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