Here is your God

 

Here is your god

In the pressing together of hydrogen atoms driven

To fusion, in the energy set free

As matter dies inside a trillion suns.

Here is your god

In the storm of energy streaming

Out into the dark between the worlds

At the speed of light.

Here is your god

All over everywhere, everywhen

In ten million million galaxies, till the border of eternity

Where spacetime ends.

Here is your god

In the glow of a red dwarf sun

And in the prism of a dewdrop on a leaf

Trembling, before it falls.

Here is your god

Everything that was, is, will be

Till the last star burns out

And entropy wins.

Here is your god

Who requires no worship

Who requires no faith

Who requires no Holy Wars.

Here is your god

God of broken rock whirling through the cosmic dark

God of man and woman and all else

Made of a reborn star.

Here is your god

Who was before the first consciousness

Stirred in the primal mud

And who will outlive it.

Here is your god

Who has no angels singing praises at its throne

Who keeps no track of the fall of a sparrow 

Who just was, and is.

Here is your god

Who offers no heaven, threatens no hell

Who only allows you to live

And create your own destiny.

Here is your god

In the comet in the sky

In the laughter of a child

In everything that you see. 

Here is your god
Who does not demand your belief
Who does not know you exist
Or care.

Here is your god

Whose temples are the galaxy and the pebble

Dark matter and giant white sun

And you.

Copyright B Purkayastha 2012