Prayer… Poem by kunjubi varghese

PRAYER! A practice of addressing God

In words or through meditation, as in praise

Of gratitude, sorrow, or intercession.

A god is required for this, and for this purpose.

And if God is a creation of ignorant people

What is the relevance of a god, for such a motive?


As an individual, He does not exist;

No creator, since creation is eternal.

There is Godliness only, but no god.

That godliness permeates and brims over

All those things, that exists in the universe.

Open your eyes widely.

Find it around you, and inside you.

In the grass, in a worm, in a flower,

In the nature, sky, ocean, universe…

That is the substance of all scriptures.

“I am the creator and the creation”.


Prayer is impossible, as there is no one

At the receiving end; no individual..

We can call God, with the qualities we attribute

In our ignorance, and it is an unwarranted exercise.

A god who get pleased when you praise him,

And a god who lose his temper and is displeased,

Trying to annihilate you, while you censure him,

Is an unintelligible phenomenon.