GOD IN OLD AGE [Su, 3-28-21]

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GOD IN OLD AGE    [Su, 3-28-21]

 

You are so old now, God.

Do you wonder how

The eons have flown by

So quickly?

Do you have that nagging

Feeling that you left

Something undone,

Or some part of creating

You’d like to do over?

That’s how I feel,

And I’m not nearly as old as you

 

Did the big bang make you jump?

Did you go outside to see what it was?

Did you say whatinthehell was that?

Did your dog bark at it, thinking it was the doorbell?

 

When you are nostalgic,

What are the good memories?

Is it the day you made bananas?

Or the time you put giggle

Fits into babies?

I’ll bet that made you laugh

 

Do you miss the dinosaurs,

Or the wooly mammoths?

How about the Neanderthals,

Or the dodo birds?

 

Do you have regrets?

Are you sorry you told

The water and the air

They could flow and blow

Wherever they wanted?

 

Are you unhappy

About your nick names,

Like goddammit

Or goodgodalmighty?

 

Are you weary with being compared

To Three In One oil on Trinity Sunday?

 

Are you tired of praise songs?

Are you fed up with “The Bible Says”?

 

Are you tired of petitions and confessions?

Are prayers getting monotonous, all sounding the same?

Do you wish someone could come up with an original sin?

Did you notice my joke there? Did you get it?

 

Are you sorry you created average,

So that so many people are always below it?

 

Do you ever wonder why you chose the Jews? They do

 

We’re getting old, you and I, heading toward the end

Have you given any thought to speeding evolution up a bit?

 

I know it must be nice

Hanging out in heaven

But do you ever wonder

What became of me?

 

John Robert McFarland