A Potato Prayer

let me not want for more
these blue waters are enough
the salty breeze alone
quenches my thirst

i will never squint at the sun again
for your sky has cleared my sight
and my heart now beats knowing
that you see me, even at my most invisible

let me not want for more
because i am warmed, i am refreshed
the mountains and forests
are your arms that embrace all

let me thus spread your love,
speak your love,
seek your love
for it alone suffices.


*This was written when Pope John Paul II died in 2005.

God loves potatoes.