Prayer Poem by Ramakrushna Sahu

War and prayer are alike
Where war is killing others
Prayer is killing oneself

The other is the hell, they say
The other is the illusion
The son of ignorance
So I pray you to kill me O God!
As myself is other than you

Take everything that I call mine
My identity born of my earnings
My name and wealth and me
My self that falsely I declared
as supreme

I pray to kill me O God!
I would make myself the hell
So long remain the other
Make me poor and kill me soon
Prayer is the only way
To be one with you.