There are and have been those prayers
together with much fingering of beads
in holy piety and sometimes in peace
but never in spiritual power for which
Jesus *called these ‘Surface Prayers’
voiced in repetition or in songs
throughout the Age of Faith
with ignorance and superstition
held together by force of fear
of hell and excommunication
and even now in the face of
new scientific knowledge
the air is filled with the drone
of psalms and hymns borne
in hope of divine salvation
*Ref.6th. Blessing of The Twelve