Someone here (sorry can't find your post) suggested atheist needed a response to "thoughts and prayers". I wrote this after the Paris attacks a few years back. Enjoy

THOUGHTS and PRAYERS

I come before You faithfully like many times before, to once again bend thy knee; My Lord.
The power of group prayer cannot be denied. It inspires and uplifts, gets you tingly inside.
Divine intervention, feel the love from above. Or is it all us together, syncronising as one?
My soul is my own but You wish it given freely. For eternal rewards requires worshiping You daily.

In worship I pray as I have been doing since when? Was it two, four, five or ten?
Thank goodness they taught me, or I would be lost. What would I be thinking? Fairies or Ghost?

Forever condemned to eternal damnation.
But what if, maybe, thats exactly what happened.

No instruction.

My mind would imagine, wonder and awe. No boundaries, no rules. Not governed by law.
Possibilities endless, all up to me. A wonderful thing, a mind totally free.
No limits at all in what you create. A marvelous world, where there is no hate
My world is my own and no one controls me. I want to create. To celebrate with glee.

To create must destroy, which can be brutal. But to then create things of beauty, the karma is neutral.
Kill tree for wood, make piano, violin. To create beautiful music. This cannot be a sin.
Kill tree for wood to make paper and pulp. Creation again, but lazy and dud.
Create above all yet create to inspire, this is what I truly desire.
To live a life full of creation, this is my ultimate destination. Inspire others with no more procrastination.

To fully create the mind must be free. No boundaries no limits, no doctrine for me.

So sorry my Lord for that You must die. To create must destroy, so sorry. Goodbye.
My mind is my limit and it wants to be free. You place too many boundaries to allow that to be.
I will stand up now, if it pleases thee. For this is the last time, I will ever bend thy knee.

My children the same, they will not be taught. They will imagine at will. No boundaries. Naught.
Inspire and teach is what I will do. They can believe what they will, once they grow up and freely choose.

And when I die who knows what will happen. The body dies, the mind may continue
Continue to be free with no physical limitations. Do what I want with unlimited expectations
Lining up at a gate of pearl is definitely not for me. Instead I may go where imagined and be totally free.
Beholden to no one, my soul is my own to keep. Inspire, live, create and enjoy the Earth's treats.

POWDER