The Way Of Prayer: What Works Why? Poem by Terence George Craddock

there are still people who pray for world peace
who turn prayer wheels these people can be found
praying in temples churches mosques monasteries

shrines holy places the wilderness or in their homes
where they live sceptics atheists claim their prayers

are worthless because the world is not a perfect paradise
sceptics atheists do not believe in power of prayers
but what if they are wrong what if answered prayer does

make a difference what if prayer does change lives
restricts the amount of evil planned perpetrated allowed
on earth consider those that seek peace often attain

measures of peace security comfort wisdom which
ferments less worries troubles in their lives often
directly proportional to sustained strength of their applied

faith reliance upon their God or gods in scientific terms
this is accentuating the positive earthing refusing the negative
strange how a few radical atheists with their religious

belief there is no God rage incensed against an atheists
claim mythical creator God; which atheists do not believe in

with an agenda demonic intensity in denial but ignore
all other mythical creatures claimed known not to exist
such as the tooth fairy easter bunny jack frost which stir

not even a mild reaction strange such atheist reactions
to a supreme creator God they claim does not exist


Terence George Craddock (Afterglows Echoes Of Starlight)
Copyright © Terence George Craddock