For all the wild caught parrots so savagely netted and swept away
from their families while their babies dumped into burlap sacks
cried out in terror.

LORD HEAR OUR PRAYER..........

For all the exotic birds that witnessed the destruction of all the
blessed trees and fled fires in fear from man's thirst to dominate,
stripping the land of all its inhabitants, leaving nothing but bare
ground behind.

LORD HEAR OUR PRAYER..........

For all the parrots that struggled through the capture, but died
unmercifully in transport from the stress of overcrowded, barbaric,
confinements and inconceivable horror.

LORD HEAR OUR PRAYER.......

For all the survivors that made it into captivity, but exist in a
nightmare of confinement unable to use their God given wings of
flight as they once remembered.

LORD HEAR OUR PRAYER.........

For all the baby birds bred in captivity whose crops burned or have
died needlessly from harshness of human hands.

LORD HEAR OUR PRAYER..........

For all the captive birds who have been erased from their owner's
consciousness and are abandoned to a lifeless existence with only a
distant memory of what is was like to hear a gentle voice from
someone who used to care.

LORD HEAR OUR PRAYER...........

For all those creatures who don't know what it's like to live life
as a bird or even to feel the breeze or sunlight but are doomed to
darkness in closets or garages, trapped inside covered cages or
shackled.

LORD HEAR OUR PRAYER......

For all the macaws, cockatoos, amazons and conures that are stripped
of their vocal cords for screaming, their sensitive beaks cut back
to prevent biting.

LORD HEAR OUR PRAYER.......

For all birds that end up for sale in pet shops or breeders, like
used merchandise unwanted and frightened in strange surroundings
with nothing more than the familiar sight of bars on a cage.

LORD HEAR OUR PRAYER.....

For all the neglected birds that are sick with infections from
filthy conditions and malnourishment that may never recover and know
what it is to feel healthy and be playful.

LORD HEAR OUR PRAYER.........

For all the misconceived parrots who were beaten, stabbed, blinded
and burned for just being a parrot.

LORD HEAR OUR PRAYER.............

For every African Grey and Cockatoo that punishes itself from
confinement and boredom by maiming their bodies and plucking their
feathers and for those who have lost all spirit of life and sway
their head low from side to side slowly into insanity.

LORD HEAR OUR PRAYER.........

We ask humbly of you, dear Lord to look upon all of your magnificent
feathered creations. Protect them from evil and harm caused by man
and to bring forth an awakening in the human heart and make it a
kinder and gentler world for all captive birds........Amen

Authored by friend and writer, Sally Brooks