Lord, I pray for this infant's awful injury
caused by a stray softball (and accidentally)---
I ask you to remove pain she is feeling,
and give her a great miracle of healing.
I ask all those who read these verses, too---
even if they dislike or criticize
other examples of my poetry---
to offer prayers for her, prayers that shall rise
to Your throne where we seek, most faithfully,
for help in time of our need. This we do,
encouraged by Scriptures' authority.
Starward