The volume of friendship

PRAYER
The volume of friendship
by Alex House

Lord, make a factory of peace,

Make more hope,

Hate, the least.

Make war as small as a speck of sand

And terrorism a wick on a candle that burns to ashes.

And make love and peace as big as a skyscraper.

And hope like a mountain that's 1,000 feet tall.

And make the volume of friendship be so loud

It shakes the ground.


Alex House lives in Upton, Massachusetts. He wrote this poem in Sunday school on Feb. 16, 2003, when he was 8 years old.