“prayer” & reflection

clasping hands together,
getting down on their knees,
squinting eyes closed
(in decent lighting which certainly
doesn’t call for such action),
concentrating on that thing inside
the most irrationally desperate parts of
their mind,
they begin to talk to themselves,
be it an internal dialogue
or actual, physical, muttering
just loud enough so
for some reason,
they can hear themselves doing it &
on top of it all,
outside speaking to a fantasy that
they perpetuate
by indulging in the same fictions
which so many have before them,
they go on to
attribute some greater, collective,
all-inclusive, warm &
“uniquely human”
characteristics
to events which are said to warrant
such truly insignificant time spent---
for only alone
does a concept of reflection
actually hold water,
since any kind of grouping together of
humans, breeds a
mass mentality---
so, to what end does this madness
flow?
what becomes of so many individuals
pretending that their infantile
squinting & hoping
squinting & hoping
amounts to anything more than a
fart in the wind?