Prayer For Normalcy
by Michael Romani

Somehow made it through another tragedy
Now I'm looking for a little normalcy
But it feels like everything is wrong
Nothing fits and nothing here belongs
Crashing hard on my sense of reality
Sometimes it seems I'm a walking fatality
Life doesn't come with a warranty
There are times it makes no sense to me
But each of us has to make our stand
No matter what comes of what we've planned
We just have to make our best stand
Doing our level best to quietly understand

There is no such thing as sanctuary
I don't say this meaning to be contrary
Truth is that I don't know who I seek to convince
I am just trying to fake a smile through the wince
That tougher guy inside of me is long gone
I feel that I don't know how to keep going on
I am holding my hands up high to my Father
Hoping He might teach me how Father my daughters
Because I am just a little out of good answers
And doubt and anxiety have grown like a cancer
Today is a very bad day; I know that I have lost my way
Please, dear Lord, just get me through this day

.... I'm not okay
           ... But, I will be....

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