Saturday, 29 February 2020

Fed Up and Far from Home


 


Dear God,
               It’s hard down here. I often find
it difficult to know what’s in your mind
when you say, “Live,” and, “Be.” It seems you keep
your purpose to yourself, for life is sleep
to us, and, being, in your absence, blind
to all your greater ways, the world’s unkind
in what it can reveal – the twist and bind
round every stacked-up pain that we two reap.
                Dear God!

We quarrel so. It’s certain we’re designed
to hurt; the fault lies there and you’re behind
it. Why? It makes no sense that we’re to leap
towards you, crash and scatter in a heap
of husks. So, which of us is more maligned,
               Dear God?

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