If you find yourself praying

If you find yourself praying

For the peace and prosperity

Of someone who has done you harm,

If you catch yourself

With a spiraling longing

That defies words,

Or if in the middle of the stillness of the night

You know

In your deepest emptiness,

That those who make your life a burden,

Who make you crazy,

And restless for a better place

Belong in your life

And are as essential as gravity

And serve as a reminder

That the real kingdom,

The only citizenship that matters,

Is the one that stretches beyond ourselves

And into the territory we were created to share.

And if you find yourself praying like this,

You may walk our streets

But you inhabit a different kingdom.

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