The little childHer parents devout
Daily mass
And rosary
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Daily prayer
For vocations
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I’ll be a nun
She decides
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I will be
Be God’s servant
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Now a nun
She sees the poor
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Every day
Passing by
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She cannot help
No money
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She has
Only prayer
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It’s raining
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The poor
On the footpath
She passes
On the way
To church
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She has no money
She can’t
Do anything
Except pray
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Some people
From the temple
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They come
With
Tarpaulin sheds
Bedding clothes
Food
Money
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They give the women
Jobs as maids
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The men
Work
In their factories
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The children
In government school
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They build their life
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She doesn’t
Do anything
She doesn’t have
Anything to give
Except prayer
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That man suffering
With an unknown ailment
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She can’t do
Anything for him
She has
Nothing to give
Except prayer
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Two days later
She is off to church
That procession
The men chanting
That man’s brother
Carrying one post
On his shoulder
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She can’t give
Anything
Except prayer
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That beggar
Beside
The road
One eye blinded
Old
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The passers by
Throwing him
A coin or two
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She has no money
She can’t give
Except prayer
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The next day
Her lunch in her hand
In a paper packet
She goes
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To that
One eyed beggar
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Talks to him
He tells his story
How he lost his bread
When the famine came
His fields mortgaged
His family hungry
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They found work
Daily labourers
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He came
To the city
Not wanting to
Be a burden
On them
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She shares his story
And her bread
And now
She has given
And received
His blessings
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