What Is the Purpose of Prayer

(What is the purpose of prayer? And what
Does it mean to be close to God?) at any
Rate, the flowers orient
Themselves to the sun, many

Times throughout the day, (there are men
Who yearn for the sun, men who go blind,)
There are lights that we yearn for but do not see,
For a park we imagine but do not find.

When you’re busy screwing in light bulbs, you cannot
See their light (that magically
Goes on at dusk), but that is just
(Another type of) apogee