Too Cold For Prayer? Poem by Edwina Reizer

The houses of worship have grown too cold.
I can't get warm in them
with all their gold.

I leave the church. I look around.
Pitiful people do I see
listening to the sound

of children starving as they cry.
I feel cold
and I ask God why?

Why do they kneel and sing and pray
in places too cold
on each Sunday?

The answers I get are all the same.
They pray to God
in a ritualistic game.

Well, I pray to God on every single day
in my own temple
in my warm way.