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A Poets Lament
Is He one of our blunders
Or are we one of His?
While my feet tread across
A patch of dead ground I
Begin to wonder just
Who created who.
Hard for eyes to see
In a world of greys
When most religions
Promenade in black and white
The color of text.
Most dont realize that
These writing, whether you
Consider them the Word of God
Or not, are simply words.
If you do not believe, then they
Can be viewed as a way to live,
Not force, but "good" none the less.
If you do believe, then it is a way
To live as shown to us by a
Higher power.
However, even in religion
It is up to the individual.
People kill in the name of
God, Mohammed, Vishnu,
Or any other God or god
They may have. Why?
We have had so many Gods
Throught time, who is to say
Mine is right and yours is wrong?
Who are WE to judge others belief?
Condemn our fellow man? No!
If you do believe then you should do the
EXACT opposite. We are told to embrace
For we are not to judge. But judge we do.
And it is this turning, this
Showing of our backs to
Our higher powers, whoever they may be
That must force us to see
That there are many with no
Organized religion
No set of rules to follow save
Their own, and yet they are
More accepting.
Forget all the "bad" in the world
That occurs and look into yourself.
See what you have done to others.
God or no God, you are the maker of
Your destiny. We control what happens.
We make decisions. They are not handed to
Us.
For the entirety of my life,
I will question, and second guess.
This is why we were given
The ability to do so.
And until my dying day
I will ask..
Is He one of our blunders
Or are we one of His?
And while I am layed
To rest in a
A patch of dead ground I shall
Begin to wonder just
Who created who.
"Is He one of our blunders
Or are we one of His?"
this line i absolutely love. but i think that the rest of the poem doesnt live up to the thought provoking things asked in this question. i am not a christian and do not believe in god the same way as the cristians do so for me this opening line of your poem makes me think on some truely deep things. and for me i think i can answer most of them. i think that is was brilliant of you to ask all of your readers to think on this in this first line, but again i feel you have forced the reader to believe that god still creates and destroys and that then forces the view toward one who follows the belief of a single god. but i think that this could have been far more exostential if it was not attached to the seporated stanzas. those to me seam like they should be a poem on their own. and the first stanza should be a set up that makes the reader think more about the depth of your opening question. thank you for sharing your poem. i am new to the site and hope to read more of your thought provoking work in the future. your friend and fellow writer M.C.