"A Writer's Prayer" is an English poem by the Indian poet and renowned spiritual healer Tarun Cherian.
Sentences that feel like bark and offer comfort like a bench after a long walk into the hills with a woman.
Or better still cupped in both hands, its icy coolness splashed on a sweaty face and arms dewed with a laughing run up a summery slope.
******** Let my words sound like a lullaby, rocking my child in its syllables rippling like gentle waves in an ocean with no shores.
[4] The poem has been frequently quoted in scholarly analysis of contemporary Indian English poetry.