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UNIVERSAL SPIRIT
Sometimes,
The only God a starving man
Can embrace is a loaf of bread.
The poor, the hungry, the sick, the downtrodden:
Though I may be the only holy book they ever see,
They in paradox may be the only salvation I ever have.
For the same reason we point telescopes skyward
Fulfilling some need to reach beyond our domain
Somewhere in us I believe is a need for a divinity
A yearning for something to explicate uncertainty
Something to placate the depths of our worst fears.
If a deity did not exist we would probably create one
Something to believe in beyond the margins of self
Probably creating it in our own image and likeness
One with whom we can talk and who will listen to us
One who would talk to us sharing its illumination,
A type of magician, maybe a performer of miracles
More importantly a comforter in our time of need.
Some of us looked inward upon onset of this yearning
This salient searching within probative of our belief,
The conviction that a spirit lives deep within us all,
That the deity without had always been available within,
Available with the additional power needed in our lives.
The God in me salutes the God in you.
