Rhyming With 'Ay'

This is a fun poem, where I was challenged to write only with sentences ending with 'ay' and not repeating a word more than once unless I really needed to. I may still amend it. I try to pray Almost every other day That everything will be okay Now I wish the sun could shine its rays Moreover, winter should go away Joyfully I will shout out ay, ay, ay Maybe then ask for a wish from a flowery Fay I wonder what I will say I could wish for an increase in pay Or ask to be content and harmoniously gay Please send me silver pennies on a tray Or perhaps just before my birthday Reward me with a holiday To the countryside where sheep bray Until all the farmers, hairs are gray Where grasses keep quiet to my dismay And line up in greens of arrays Where people shout hurray, hurray And chickens deal with eggs they have to lay Such a place I would like to stay However, it has to have a quay Ironed out with sands of clay There are times I wonder in dismay *** Why people suffer everyday Hands take their time to slay Others living things and betray Our reasoning behind a bodies decay Well while the sunshines make hay So they say Try not to be agile and affray Take out time to play Life requires some foreplay Rewind your clock and replay Some of your events today Place objects in different outlays Program your timing with some delay Then you might see where you have gone astray In the meantime you can stay From Monday to Sunday and at midday Keep quiet and silently on the bed lay Listen to the sounds of the river bay It will give you an insight to my ways Copyright 2005 - Sylvia Chidi