If I Were God

If I Were God

If I were God and I could see
The world in its entirety,
I would not hesitate to look
Upon the world that was forsook:
Forsook by humankind itself,
Forlorn and lost upon the shelf;
A bleeding planet left to mend
All by itself, without a hand
Or gentle word to make it well:
A bubbling, boiling mass of Hell.

And if I looked and I could see
The world in its entirety,
What form of madness would there dwell
To make my heart with anger swell?
I would not really want to feel
The broken heart, the wounded heel.
I would not care at all to know
The drunken stupor felt below.
But I am GOD and I MUST try
To feel their pain and hear them cry.

Dawn Pisturino
April 3, 1986

Humorous Short

Sorrows come and sorrows go,
Pleasures last a day;
I know not why He made it so:
I wish it were the other way!

Dawn Pisturino
May 3, 1986

A Prayer

Everything men touch turns to ugliness:
Love turns to lust;
Disagreement turns to war;
Order turns to chaos.

I want a peaceful man with love in his eyes,
Tenderness in his heart,
And beauty in his soul.

A man whose strength comes from moral strength,
Whose words bespeak clear honesty,
And whose passions are tempered by courtesy and respect.

The animal belongs in the jungle
To hunt and lust with the other beasts.
I do not want him in my bedroom
Or in my life.

God did not make us to evolve downward:
He gave us minds to use wisely,
Hearts to feel strongly,
And souls to live in His circle of light.

The mother with child learns instantly
What beauty is,
For she sees God in her child's face,
Her child's life, her child's destiny,
And she seeks only to make this world
A calmer place, a better place,
A more loving place, a saner place.

If men would be so fortunate,
They would die
Rather than live the life
Of the beast any longer.

O God, if You hear me,
Rescue us from our darker selves,
Unite us with Your brighter light,
And love us, only love us.

Dawn Pisturino
October 16, 1985

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