The Purpose of Prayer

I should not pray  
for the attainment of my happiness  
or my contentment or subjection to eternal joy  
for that’s a hedonistic and self-centered aim;  
It's also a denial of the things the master said  
that prayer, especially the one that people say  
belongs to him,  is for.  
 
He expressly said its  purpose is to gain  
the aid from God  
that helps ensure that pray-ers do not stray  
from conforming all their  public ways  
to what the Father has decreed  
his chosen ones  
are obligated to behaviourally display  
if they would know his grace  
and be  regarded by Ha-Shem  
as worthy to be called his Sons.  
 
"Oh let your will be done,  
not mine" should be the only object  
of  a prayer's prayer.