they woke up

 

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Oh God, please help us. Give us leaders who 

have wisdom and will work to serve your kids;

who'll help their re-al growth, and not eschew

resisting mechanisms with no lids.

The mechanistic bureaucratic ways 

that guess without the hard work born from  care;

that only care for box-ticking displays

of nice neat rows of children who are there

upon their seats, who feel good, even though

they don't have Dad, or Mum to raise them up.

So without careful village elders, woe

is likely to envelop, and erupt.

Oh God please give us wisdom and the folk

who lead by serving others as they can,

and who connect to you, so now they've woke-

-en up to creativity's good plans, 

& hopes, and will work with reality

and care for others, that won't balk at pain,

though will not harm, for creativity

has ways forward that comfort would disdain.

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