Eurpa Poets' Gazette No. 69, January 2010

God: Said to have supernatural power, a Supreme Being to be worshipped; an idol.
On God
Through revelation’s fiction we may see
With fables, parables and short stories
The theories of the brain as deity
That may alleviate life’s worries;
To elevate us all from earthly pain
Where miracles defy all nature's law;
To show a slight confusion in their aim
As violated sense is what they saw.
And then one prays for proof and hopes in vain
But often dreams of cure and fame that lift
A spirit that has sunk to fearful shame;
Only then the light of hope may be a gift
That drives the spirit and may clear your name,
When life becomes the God’s own game.
Being: Existence; that which exists; creature.
On Being
I am the essence of ambitious themes,
A quality of much intrinsic worth;
With attributes of light and colour schemes
That quantify my spirit towards terse.
Relationships within me are obtuse
All space is filled by some organic work
Where heartbeats pump to drums that are abstruse
There, in a tunnel where diseases lurk.
But in this state where skin, like leather, hides
The churning mills that actively enrage
The enemy of life where rape abides
And through affection, warring cells engage.
Where my survival is a way of life
To make my cells a ubiquitous hive.
© Joe Lake