When they are on the road and you cannot follow
A Mother’s Prayer for Her Children in Distant Lands
A deep, maternal supplication invoking the universal Mother of all mortals to guard sons and daughters crossing frontiers, oceans, and unfamiliar cities.
Universal Mother of all mortals, they are not in this room. Walk the same streets they walk.
Let the crossing be ordinary. Let the arrival be ordinary. If someone is waiting, let them still be waiting.
I cannot buy their safety. I can name them under your robe. Keep them. Keep me from becoming cruel in the wait.