Blessed be the lettuce pickers
the wards and waifs
the overweight and underfed
the unnamed
the average
the slandered
Blessed be the misunderstood
the latch-key kids
the shy
the shunned, the uncool
the stone-cold sober
the street sweepers
Blessed be the night shift
the unfriended
those who try
the drivers and delivery boys
the widows
the utterly forgiving
Blessed be the utterly forgiven
the bussers
the barren
the gunned down
the onlys and the singles
those who try again
Blessed be the addicts
the true believers
the doubters
the kind
the blue-sky dreamers
the down-and-outers
Blessed be the last leaf on the tree
the parched and hollow
the seed sowers
the ardent seekers
those in second place
the commuters on the city bus
Blessed be the here and now
Blessed be the there and then
Your kingdom come, O Lord. When?
