What Prays At Night?

for  Laurie's prompt at Poetry Jam: to write about a refrigerator, in 50 words or less. (Mine is 51.)When my four kids were young, I was a single mom, quite impoverished, and keeping up with their hungry appetites was an on-going challenge. 

One night, we were playing 

a family game,

with written clues 

hidden 

throughout the house.

One clue

was tucked into

my prayer plant,

whose leaves folded 

up and inward

every night.

It read:

"What closes up at night

and prays?"

Jon, age eleven,

quipped

"the refrigerator!"

and we all

cracked up.

I should explain that the fridge, always empty, was praying for groceries!!!!!!!