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all that dark

they lord, forgive them for what they do not know,
forgive them for their conceived notions
of your will and your testament,
they lord, they know not who they be.

they lord, let them clamor across the earth
from city to city, desert to desert,
locking arms and swaying in the dead air,
let them counsel and murder and usurp
like a slow moving mold over everything.

they lord, help them understand your deity,
let them see you are not as they say you be,
you vengeful titan, you caring parent,
let them see you are but globs of antimatter
that will destroy everything if you become too great.

they lord, they know not what they know,
they know not your faceless effigy
swirling and burning out there in all that dark,
consuming in ultimate finality without judgment,
not a being but a force that has shook the universe
without so much as a breath.

they lord, they cannot grasp divinity
and seek only your infinity, a scrap of your essence,
they lord, let them wander endlessly
in search of your estate, your cathedral of stars,
they lord, they lord, they do not know you are not they.

-S.C. Martinez

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  1. Liz Avatar
    Liz

    Maybe so.
    C.S. Lewis would argue that, though the tendency is often to think of God as an abstract force, a sort of shapeless blob, and He/She/It may be, it makes more sense to think of God as having a personality, even as the ultimate personality. Following the logic that, assuming we are higher on the hill of divinity than animals or, say fungi, then we would say that all the things that make us distinctly human would be more likely what we would expect in God. That God is more of a person than any person ever was, and to call him a powerful but mindless (or at least impartial, so might as well be mindless) force would be to demote Him to the status of a sea sponge.

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