John Lawless Poet Free verse

What God is This

What God(?) is this
That walks warmly alongside death
A malingering menace
Feasting on the pain of life’s limitations
A sadist, reveling in life’s clinging pain
Supping on the angst of agony’s doubts
Holding trembling hands
Promising nothing.

Who’s God(?) is this
Erasing the lines of life’s lunacy
Denying the agony of love’s departure
Reveling in the emptiness of alone
Offering no choice but death’s mystery.

What god?
I ask with venomed breath
Would slay youth
Extend a lifeless life
Of endless need
Prolong the hollow need
Of a God(?)
Who walks warmly alongside death.

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Maureen McGreavy Pigeon Tart January 20, 2025 at 6:34 AM Indeed.

Gershon Wolf January 16, 2025 at 7:47 PM We are dumbfounded by the ways of God, which often make little sense, if any, to us. ~ gw, aka 'Sense-less'

Hilda Greenhough January 14, 2025 at 8:54 PM Interesting poem. I believe that pain was never intended to be pain, but a warning to take measures to live healthy. I agree with the thought of why do bad things happen?.