Thank you, Lord, for pretty things. <br />Thank you for ribbons, flowers, and rings. <br />Thank you for all things shiny and bright; <br />For fireworks shows that light up the night. <br />Thank you for girls with freckled noses. <br />Thank you for boys with bouquets of roses. <br />Thank you for babies with ticklish bellies; <br />For cookies and cakes and homemade jellies. <br />Thank you for kittens with soft, furry toes. <br />Thank you for glitter and buttons and bows. <br />Thank you for beaches and for summer flings, <br />For jewels and other frivolous things, <br />For window sills and sunflower seeds. <br />Dear Lord, thank you for things I don’t need.<br /><br />Akara K.<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/pretty-things/
