God

GOD

God is not to be found on the mountain-top
The view is not of insecurity
Security to the insecure seems as insecurity;
the mountain it is which is paltry

His absence from the world
is merely the illusion of blind men
He is not the absentee landlord
He created everything
He built nothing
He is un-religious

God is not a guy
who lives in the sky
or on mountain-tops
He is everything to do with me and you

He made the world
but we forgot
and do not listen to the orders
sent from his throne

His crown
is a crown of thorns,
his throne a bramble bush
We called him insane
and locked him away
up in the sky
on the top of the mountain

And if you want
to break his laws
do, but remember,
he does care
and did care
and if was insane
then better his madness
than our sanity

God's not a guy
who lives in the sky
He's everything to do with me and you

© Gerald England

Composed: Ackworth, 11th September 1966

Publication
1966 POETIC SEQUENCE FOR FIVE VOICES (Glasgow, St John's)