Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep
By Tammy C. Smith
An Animal Rights Poem from All-Creatures.org

All of God's creatures have rights, a fact that most people don't seem to recognize. This includes both human and non-human animals, but not all of them can speak for themselves.

Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep
By Tammy C. Smith

Now I lay me down to sleep 
I pray the Lord his creatures keep 
Safe from harm and danger fate 
I pray the Lord his creatures take

To a place of love and kind 
Where only peace will they find 
In His presence filled with light 
No more hunger, no more fright.

As I lay me down to sleep 
I pray the Lord no creatures weep 
But only dwell in loving hands 
And find respect of Godly man,

To know the love of His great earth 
With pelt and flesh and bone no worth,
Not as game or sport or hunted 
But to live as God intended

With dream and slumber shall I breathe 
I pray the Lord my prayer receive 
And should I die before I wake 
I pray the Lord my creatures take.

AMEN

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