Eden

God

when you were in Eden

you were mean.

You treated Adam and Eve like kids;

you would not let them grow up;

you wanted them to say as your dependent babies in paradise

and never think or create anything for themselves

which was an abomination:

because you had made them like you

with the same urge to create

question and control

that was your nature.

I do not like the god of the garden.

Thank God that God grew up

later in the bible

and learnt that there was a better way

by letting go

and giving away freedom

for his offspring to make their own mistakes.

A lesson every parent has to learn.

Creed

by John Butterfield






I believe in God
the father almighty
most of the time
but sometimes
I wonder
what life would be like
if I didn't.

If there was no moral origin to the universe.
If there were no origin in love
and no destination in love
just a rabid struggle for supremacy
without rules
in the short years of life.

If we lived and accumulated
and bonked and fought
and hid and cried
knowing that nothing meant anything
and all was ephemeral floss.

If the big brother house
were the model for life
and the animal instincts
we have mostly civilised
became rampart serpents
in the evolutionary struggle
of not so sociable
social Darwinianism.

As we trudge onward
on our return journey
to the primal slime....

I'd prefer to believe in God!


(The image accompanying this entry is one of the series of engravings by William Blake illustrating the story of Job)