Give me a God - a good God

Who, tossing his antlered brow

Embraces the Sun with his eyes.

Not a savage God

Bent by his wrath on punishing his children

Like a bored infant

Mutilating a once favoured toy.

 

Give me a God, a gracious God,

All father,

A sculptor who takes pride in his work.

Not a God who has forgotten

How to inspire anything except perhaps bigotry, Fear, and more than a little hysteria.

 

Give me a God, a Horned God,

Lord of Animals,

Dancer, who gives my faltering feet life.

Not a static God

Worn out, frustrated,

Because nothing works any more.

 

Still, cheer up, old Ancient of Days -

It's not all your fault, you know.

 

(Copyright Janet Farrar; 1989)