Only read if you want more love and understanding in your life.

 

A poem written like a ritualistic invocation—a short ceremonial prayer calling on natural forces (“Air,” “Land,” “Night,” “Day”) to bring love, understanding, and protection to the reader or speaker. 

It blends poetic imagery with spiritual or symbolic language.

Themes.

“Power of Air / Power of Land”

Air and Land (Earth) are two of the classical elements.

They symbolize:

Air: clarity, thought, communication; Land/earth: stability, grounding, safety.

Calling upon them suggests seeking mental clarity and emotional grounding.

“Hear my soul's holy writs.” “Holy writs” means sacred writings or intentions. This line expresses, listen to my deepest desires or inner truth.

“I pray for love and understanding, so come my way.” This is the core desire: to attract love, compassion, and deeper harmony with oneself or others.

“Power of Night / Power of Day”

Night and Day represent opposites—shadow and light, unconscious and conscious, and feminine and masculine energies. 

Calling both means invoking balance and wholeness.

“Hear what I say: I summon thee to protect me. So be it.” 

A closing affirmation: asking for protection from all directions and solidifying the intention with “So be it” (a ceremonial equivalent of “amen” or “let it be done”).

The P.S.—“By “reading it silently, you've summoned…”

This is a playful or mystical flourish.

It implies that simply giving your attention to the words activates their intention—reflecting a common spiritual idea: “Energy goes where attention flows.

The poem is a poetic ritual meant to feel magical.

A symbolic call for love, understanding, clarity, grounding, balance, and protection

A reminder that focusing on these qualities can draw them into your life.

Only read if you want more love and understanding in your life!

(A lone voice whispers after lighting a white candle. The invocation ends with the blowing out of the candle after the last line is recited)

Title.

The Prayer to The Elementals. Candēla Meditation.

(A lone voice whispers)

Power of Air, Power of Land.

Hear my soul's holy writs. I pray for love and understanding.

So come my way. Power of Night, Power of Day.

Hear what I say. I summon thee to protect me. So be it.

 (C) Copyright John Duffy.

P. S.

You do realize by reading it silently, you've summoned more love and understanding into your life?

Energy goes where attention flows.