God Slams Back

So I’ve to sort out all the
worlds problems and strife,
Is it not enough that I created 
you and let you think,
Now you can’t even 
do that for yourselves,
It’s all what would god want, 
why does god let this happen.

Well let me ask you this, 
why have you killed in my name,
Plundered just the same,
Banished the sick and lame,
Then say I’m to blame,

You worship me
You hate me 
You curse me
You serve me
All in your own way. 

Why don’t I end disease 
grief pain poverty needs,
I hear and see all your plea’s
I despair but cannot accede.

Can only happen this way, 
there is no script, 
I may influence your day
don’t intervene, I pray 
Might give you a nudge,
a peep a clue, out of the blue, 
the other guy has his tricks too.

I’ve got enough on my plate,
a universe to keep in place,
Who’s watching my back, 
I can’t always be awake, 
must keep heaven ready, 
for souls you burnt at the stake 
give me a break. 

It’s your planet 
I want you to inhabit, 
then you have doubt
what life’s about, 
it’s ok so do I,
But we must see it out. 

It’s not perfect was 
never meant to be 
You need a fall guy, 
or a shoulder, thats me,
you can also choose to ignore. 

Live it your way 
I pity you
I love you 
I made you
I serve you
in my own way. 

A man wrote this slam you say
Impersonating god is not ok,
well listen to yourselves 
before you slay 
And yes this guy does pray 
in his own casuistry way
Could I write this any other way
of course I’m a hypocrite,
One shaped by dismay 

By
David Kavanagh.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2020

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Flaherty Avatar
July 7, 2020 at 3:46 PM
Check this poem of mine out if you would please David Its called Reason for all the world's problems
Flaherty Avatar
July 6, 2020 at 6:56 PM
Why on earth David If indeed God gave us a brain would he not intend or fully expect us to use it. I thought the only unexplained or pointless organ in the body is the appendix. Like your line says Its your planet
Flaherty Avatar
July 7, 2020 at 3:14 PM
Praise be to him When thingss go right Curse him or blame others when things go wrong
Kavanagh  Avatar
July 6, 2020 at 10:44 PM
I think that’s the point Christopher it’s all about our evolving intelligence it’s a hypothetical situation where I’m trying to make an alternative case for god by leaving us to our own devices and not intervening we actually learn and grow, but in the meantime when things go wrong we use him as a scapegoat, in which I have depending on how bad things get in life hence the hypocrisy of counting my blessings and cursing my luck I’m agnostic by nature which basically means I cannot discount a god, cheers David
Flaherty Avatar
July 6, 2020 at 7:07 PM
The Lord is my Shepherd But i am not a Sheep
Krutsinger Avatar
July 3, 2020 at 9:38 PM
I was riveted.
Kavanagh  Avatar
July 4, 2020 at 1:17 AM
I was fired up Caren, cheers David
Pigeon Tart Avatar
July 3, 2020 at 8:44 PM
You made me smile. There's a blessing.
Kavanagh  Avatar
July 4, 2020 at 1:11 AM
Thank you super mo, a smile is better than a sigh, that can’t be bad cheers David
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