Using God to plead.
I will use God to beg you
For she knows what it is to err.
Like a curse, hot from bowels,
She spewed us out of Eden,
To break back beneath the sun,
To pay for food & shelter & sex.
You will forgive for you know
What it is to be divine,
To hunger for wings so strong,
You built planes & parachutes
To never stop flying, to never fall.
To be so full of sin is to know
All the name for God & mother.
To be a god is to break something
Into the image of another.
I will not beg with my name,
Lest I swear on your flowers
To wilt, your universe to darken
For even gods fear to die.
In the pantheon of things, you
Are the first, the It, the
Alpha & judgment, the maker
Of gods of small wonders;
Phones, laptops & greed, twitter
& the commodity that is human.
You broke my altar, stone
& rivet, bolts & manacles,
& I, bloodthirsty like any other
God born of man, must forgive
For gods know what it is
To be human, to be tender, to be lost
& I must send my children
To carry their crosses, to die.
📷: pixabay
©Osahon, 2020.
Nice piece as always
Thank you for your kind words, prechyrukky
First off... the perception of God as she rules!
The so called life summarized in two sentences. We are nothing without forgiveness and the gods.
Well is God a man? Can a spirit being have a gender? I don't know but I choose to think that he is gender less. My Christianity is not under question though 😂.
Yes, what else do we do if not pay for food, shelter and sex?
The good book has always portrayed God as a He and being the African soul that I am, tangible residue of belief is still stuck within me so I believe it 😬🤷♀️
I don't think spirits beings are gendered.
Lol. Feels biased as you used a 'he'.
Nothing. The rest we sacrifice ourselves for like family. 🧡
Well I could not say 'it'. Didn't want to portray God as a thing. If I can use she, then I can use he, right? Anywho, God is a spirit being.
Yeah, family takes all. I try to enjoy the beauty that I find.
Makes sense but then again it makes me want to question why God has always been portrayed as a 'He'.
Enjoying the beauty we find equals to living rather than merely existing :D
It depends on who told the Jewish story of creation to the people, who were the custodians of their myths, their history and who led the people. Also whoever compiled the holy books too. I think it was easy. If we look at the point that God made everything even the universe, and that most women are nurturers, it is even more acceptable for God to be female than male. But the way I see it, spirits cannot have gender. I think another reason why God has been referred to as he could be that all those who have met and encountered that presence in the holy Bible for instance, have written it as loud, threatening, violent, forceful. Only a few speak of a calm voice. It is expected that men are the ones who express violence and force the most. We will know or not someday. Meanwhile, I just worship.