Morning Prayer

Morning Prayer
P K Routray

Good morning God.
Pray I, seeking your gracious nod
Above ostentation, pride I should stay
with ignorance, anger, cruelty and fear kept at bay.
Praise or blame profusely I to none
abstain I should, to gossip on character of a person.
Devoid of attachment, lust jealousy and greed
positive always I be in thought, word and deed.
No aspiration should I have for assimilating wealth and power.
Death is certain, other things are mirage, to me it should always appear.
To your creation I should have strength to love and serve
remembering, offering and surrendering all my thoughts, words and acts to you above.