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Is God real?

Contributed by Brandyx7 on Saturday, 19th November 2005 @ 10:10:43 AM in AEST
Topic: ChristianPoetry



With all the sorrow in the world,
And the horrors that persist.
The fact that God ignores it all,
Tells me God must not exist.

I see planes flown into buildings,
Bombs set off on crowded trains,
I see children raped and murdered,
Never finding their remains.

There are crooked politicians
Who conspire to take control,
There are priests who serve the body
And care nothing for the soul.

There are people who are starving,
Others suffer on our streets.
The environment is dying,
And the cycle just repeats.

So I climbed the highest building
And screamed at God above.
I said, why won’t you do something
If you are a God of love?

Then the skies began to darken,
Bolts of lightning crashing down,
As I looked I saw an Angel
With a scepter and a crown.

He bade me to cease my groaning,
My complaints had all been heard.
The Lord, he said, had charged him with
Delivering me His word.

The Angel continued speaking,
And His voice seemed so serene,
As he shared with me the reason
Why God doesn’t intervene.

He said, the evils in this world,
Result from our own free will.
It is we who make the choices
In hating enough to kill.

But if God were to intervene,
That would take away your choice.
No more free will to make mistakes,
No more questions, no more voice.

The only will you would follow,
Would be your Father’s above.
You’d have no choice in what you do,
Or the people that you love.

Like fish in an aquarium
With no chance to go beyond.
For they do not know their choices,
And they’ve never seen the pond.

Is this what you are longing for?
Shall He make it so for you?
Do you want God to make your choice?
What would you like Him to do?

I pondered what the Angel said,
And I finally understood.
There is a price for our free will,
For knowing evil and good.

It’s our responsibility,
Our range of choices are broad.
But when we choose the darker path,
We need to stop blaming God!

He’d never make that choice for us,
Evil is ours to fulfill.
And the consequences therein
Are the result of free will.

Then I heard a crash of thunder
As the skies began to clear.
And when the Angel disappeared,
His last words rang in my ear.

“You can choose what you believe in,
Pretend not to hear my voice.
You’ll find proof of God’s existence
In the fact you have that choice.”





Copyright © Brandyx7 ... [ 2005-11-19 10:10:43]
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Re: Is God real? (User Rating: 1 )
by Essentially9 on Saturday, 19th November 2005 @ 11:07:31 PM AEST
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you certainly have talent, if you were able to pull off such a long poem without boring me. i say that because 90 percent of the poems on this site bore me with the beginning 2 lines and this poem in its entirity didnt do that to me. you write well, especially with rhythm and rhyme and not cutting off the concept, because you proved your points. as for the ending, it tells me that you are somewhat leaning more towards there is a god. even though the whole freewill thing is a part of it, there are also more reasons to it for why he doesnt intervene. afterall nothing is ever that simple =] i loved your ending most in this.




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