Jake Aller Poet Free verse

God's Confession Part Two

They think I am irrelevant 
They think I am dead 

They think I am a fairy tale 
From some olden, ancient time 
 
Some say I am dead 
Others think I should be dead 
That my work is done 
 
I looked at him 
Carefully now 
And what did I see 

An old man 
With that lunatic look 
But there was something else 
 
He was crazy 
Sure yes 
But perhaps he was the real deal 
 
I mean why not 
Why would not God be 
A lunatic wandering around loose 

Talking to low lives like me 
In a bar 
On the way to hell 
 
So, I looked at him 
And invited him to share 
His tale of woe 
 
God tells me 
Well, it's like this 
 
Many a year ago 
People believed in me 

But one day 
They quit believing in me 
And they went on without me 
 
As they left me  
My powers got weaker and weaker 
And so eventually I became 
What you see today 
 
A broken down drunk 
Hanging out  
Looking for a hand out 
Looking for some company 
Or at least a free dinner 
 
And he laughed and laughed 
And I looked at him 
And saw the beginnings of the end 
And the ends of the beginnings 

I saw a million planets  
Flash by  
A billion people 
A trillion sentient beings 

Thinking all at once 
Thoughts filled my head 
Lights flashed 

And I knew 
He was telling the truth 

But it did not matter 
In this day and age 
Of materialism 
 
God has no role 
God is truly dead 

And so, I bought him a drink 
And walked out of the bar 
Profoundly sadden by what I had seen 
 
God was dead 
And we had all conspired  
To kill him

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