To Serve and To Praise 15

In selicha 58, recited on Tzom Gedalyah, we address the Torah, and ask the Torah to pray to Hashem on our behalf.  Clearly, the Torah is not an entity that possesses free will.  What can such a prayer mean?
Perhaps we mean to stress the merit of Torah in the eyes of Hashem, and the merit that it grants to us when we study and observe it.  The paytan employs poetic imagery of the Torah as an entity to which we are directing our prayer in order to dramatize this lesson.
If so, perhaps this is also the meaning of the various selichos which are addressed to angels.  In order to stress the importance of invoking Hashem's mercy, the paytan depicts the selicha as an appeal to the angels of mercy themselves.  The real focus of the selicha, however, is on Hashem and His choice to bestow mercy, not on the angels, who are mere tools in His Hands.