In Prayer, What Does It Take

 What Does It Take

What does it take for a prayer to be complete

First one must check in his heart very deep

Then one must know the One he asks

Can deliver without a lapse

And does that One have a kind heart

To give with mercy so we can start

But deeper still, we come to see

The lack itself must come from we

Not for relief, not for escape

Not just to sweeten bitter fate

But to desire what He desires

To rise above these ego fires

A prayer is not the words we say

It’s when the heart has no other way

When all our strength is fully gone

And only unity lives on

When we can’t stand being apart

When separation breaks the heart

When only one request remains:

Connect us all above these chains

Then silence speaks, the tears align

Our lack becomes a single line

Not “give me light,” not “answer me,”

But make us fit for what You see

That’s when the prayer is truly whole:

One lack, one heart, one common soul.