God and Me

GOD & ME They told me of God, his name, essence, demeanour Men of knowledge, wisdom and inside information But I, lacking such arcane wit, being only a gleaner Inspecting what I discerned from my simple station Found that what I 'knew' of God came from what I'd been told Such knowledge I had was all second hand and cold So when it comes to God whom others know On a personal level, I'd say that's where I'm lacking I don't question their truth, their integrity I trow But it's my understanding not theirs that I'm ransacking When I've looked for a message from Him to me directed I've not found one, no return of call connected I decided therefore to stick with my experiences And take it from there in attempts to increase my knowing When it comes to discovering more of life's invariances Those laws of existence that point the best ways to be going I look at what is there, perceived from my own viewpoint And sometimes this leads to a fresh and wider new point I see all around there's a world of physical existence No question it seems pretty solid, assuredly there Predictable when you apply laws of physics consistent But terrible if denied, not assigned due care So here's a side of life that can be inspected But let's not suppose that it's ALL (Dawkins' tenets rejected) * There's also my body, main part of my world animation So close, it sometimes seems that it's what I am At this time I depend upon it for communication And for much sensation, enjoyable and damned But in spite of all the pains that come along with it Both a curse and a blessing, for now I'm holding on to it Another part of experience often neglected Is what we see in the eye of our mind, day or night Those mental pictures that show, sometimes unexpected Whether memories or imagination in flight Think they're trivial? Recall time of stress or of high satisfaction To feel the effect of these images and of their traction I come to the penultimate, or ultimate part of my nature That's described by the answer to: 'Who's looking at the picture?' It is I - call it spirit, perceiver and sometimes creator The one who's aware of awareness, self driven predictor That such attributes come from matter, I doubt that demean Since substance as cause would define me as robot machine And finally, the most transcendent part of this life There's you and he and she, they and we Co-existing, interacting with interest, love and strife Each one with own world , just as it is for me As for God, I'll keep looking in hope of more real affinity Meanwhile living with others whose lives reflect divinity Richard Dawkins - current 'High Priest of Materialism/Atheism (I share many of his thoughts, but not on this point)