Thoughts & Prayers

There is nothing left to do now

but to think about God

my country’s Money

my mother’s Allah

my grandmother’s Jesus

my father’s American Dream

my uncle’s Foreign Cars

my teacher’s College Education

my lawyer’s Time

When Umi asked for thoughts and prayers

each one of them bowed their heads

to their version of the higher power

and maybe never, ever even once

thinking of Hope

thinking of me