A POET’S PRAYER

 

          A POET’S  PRAYER

Prayers are addressed to God. They are expressions of gratitude as well as requests for grant of some favours and gifts.

Sick people, poor people, unemployed people, unhappy people and all those people who are needy in one way or the other pray to God for His help. Though totally personalized, their prayers are also worth listening . They should be accepted by God who is All-powerful and uniquely sympathetic creator of this universe.   

            There are also some unselfish community prayers which are found in religious books.

It is worth mentioning  that most of the prayers in the whole world  are in poetry. They have been repeated ever since they were composed and shall be repeated for centuries to come.

            Given below is a prayerful poem written by the Indian poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher and social reformer Shri Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) who was awarded The Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.

“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;

Where knowledge is free ;       

Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls :

Where words come out from the depth of truth ;

Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection ;

Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit ;

Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action---

Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awak.

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G.R.Kanwal

18 December 2024