My Prayer-Poem for the 15th day of Lent, 3 March 2021

Where is God?

“Seek ye the things that are above”
wrote Paul to Colossae;
and earthly things, they matter not,
he wanted to imply.

But did he really mean to say
that things material
don’t matter any more or less,
tainted because they’re real?

How far beyond the things of earth
is Christ at God’s right hand?
How far from mobile phones or bread
do his dear angels stand?

Must we ignore hunger and pain
to journey to that star?
Leave poor and homeless destitute
and scale the heights - how far?

As far as understanding is
from words or love from rose,
as far as music is from sound,
as poetry from prose.

As far as joy from ecstasy,
as logic is from truth,
as far as beer from drunkenness
and passion is from youth,

as far as Jazz from Dave Brubeck
as Banksy is from paints,
as outward signs to sacraments,
as holy lives from saints.

As far as two young lovers lips,
as flutters from a kiss,
so far is God from things of earth,
so far that world from this.

©️Mark Andrew Smith
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