All prayers are acknowledgements. <br />God hardly hears or responds <br />To words of prayers that do not sound <br />The deeds and motives of the praying. <br /> <br />When I do my job the way it should be done <br />Where is there room for prayers then? <br />We look upon God to get the mettle <br />To do a thing that is not up-to our will. <br /> <br />A job well done is the best of prayers: <br />Like loving the ones who need to be loved, <br />Helping the ones who deserve to be helped, <br />And visiting those ones who need our presence. <br /> <br />They are prayers; that are gauged by all Gods. <br />All our prayers need to be telling our Gods <br />That what we need is not what we plead for <br />But the time and discretion to do better. <br /> <br />To love, to help and visit, the same way we love <br />Our Gods, help HIS will and visit HIS premises.<br /><br />A. Jayaprakash Jayaprakash Panicker<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/prayers-are-never-heard-but-acknowledged/
