All Those Candles Mom Lit For Me Every Sunday

Robert Joseph Mattingly 1957 (Brookline, Massachusetts)



Bailing people out
Is the thing to do,
But without a doubt
Is it helping you.

There's a better way.
It's a guarantee
And that is to pray
To God, Almighty.

He knows what is best
For that certain one,
Way more than the rest,
Though what's said or done.

As God hears our voice,
The best way is when
They don't have a choice
Those women and men.

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Written on February 25, 2024

Submitted by robertm.06281 on February 25, 2024

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Scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 345
Words 81
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4

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