Give me God to Happily Live

Dear God, give me energy

To form a fine strategy.

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Give me will-power

To make peace flower.

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Give me mirth

To bless this earth.

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Give me love

To help somehow.

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Give me peace

So, all, I can please.

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Give me no confusion

To find a solution.

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Give me not disease

Prayers, I will increase.

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Give me a kind mood

To prove I am shrewd.

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Give me friendship

To face hardship.

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Give me knowledge

To build a bridge.

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Give me thinking

For useful inking.

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Give me mercy

Not any jealousy.

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Give me not punishment

But only great enjoyment.

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Give me poetry

To make my mind free.

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Give me a wise head

To reject this hatred.

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Give me holy bread

And a shrewd head.

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Give me a very good spouse

To make home out of the house.

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Give me noble children,

Be it a daughter or son.

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Give me money

For life to be sunny.

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Give me adequate time

Before the killing crime.

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Take me after my death

When I leave this earth.

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Let my birth be useful

With myself being helpful.

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Put me kindly in Heaven,

With no birth under the Sun!

M V Venkataraman