1.
THE DIVINE
You see heaven gave us everything
And when it came to knowledge of itself,
It cursed us with a certain kind of ignorance
So blame not myself for my mortal contemplations.
My head has me thinking God is selfish
A narcissistic being so deeply involved with power and control
So much that he decides to share his glory with no one
Yet in the end, our selfish God thought it kind enough
To leave the earth entirely for his creations. Is that not generous?
Golgotha still has a question mark hanging out on the old rugged cross.
I see two parties justifying their actions and calling each other bad.
To the jews, a man had been blasphemous and was meant to die
How well did man play God?
Yet to God, his son was sent to save mankind and pay the price by dying
How well did God play man?
We were told God allowed it happened. A simple case of "...God killed God"
And till now, the Trinity is yet to provide a name for the Golgotha story.
Murder or suicide?
Then man, in his constant cravings for everything good, played a role and called it salvation.
Speaking of which.
I was told never to question mysteries
So because of this, the Trinity basks in the euphoria of my ignorance
But since science has failed to explain this theory
And my humanity decides to be omni-inquisitive.
I think I'll need a piece of paradise to understand how three person made one
So in all my wishings, I crave for the Pentecost flame to rest on my temple
Maybe that way, I'll see things in a new light.
I have decided not to contemplate on miracles without understanding God first
What's understanding what God did without understanding God?
So until I understand who did what,
Let's just pretend to believe Water to wine, five loaves of bread and two fishes were all possible.
I contemplate because I seek to know
And,
In all my wishings, I crave for the Pentecost flame to rest on my temple
Maybe that way, I'll see things in a new light.
2.
WHO MAN'S? (HUMANS)
Since dogma forbids me from questioning the creator
I think I'll put my question marks on the creation
Maybe that way, I'll be free from the bliss my ignorance offers.
My fear is not in asking or getting answers either
Because I know people try to answer when asked
Yet they don't guarantee you'll like the answers.
Any difference from dogma?
Man answers from what he knows
And what he doesn't, he finds a way to get lost
Unlike dogma that knows all but answers some
Man doesn't know all, yet he answers all
Man claims to know all from the confidence of knowing little
Yet because he can't do without bliss
Ignorance sits on the crown of his finite knowledge.
In knowing,
I don't think man knows a thing.
We might be peacocking in science but we know nothing.
Yes! The plenary of people know absolutely nothing
How can you say you know of all and nothing of your beginning at all?
Genesis or Big bang? How unsure are we again as a race?
For peace, let's leave the beginning for the past
And talk about a common battle we fight differently
Evil.
Genderless evil in every sense of it.
How does man see it?
Is it only evil to man because it wasn't done by him?
Or because it is what it is?
How does man know evil?
Oops! I forgot he knows nothing.
For the records
Man might end up being the only mystery that fails to understand himself.
What should I expect from something created out of the image of a mystery?
You tell me.
3.
CREDITS AND BLAMES
When we pray for rain, we also ask for flood
We give God the credit for the first
And say it's good
We gnash our teeth and curse the later
And say it's evil from the devil.
When we pray for long life,
We are only asking for a delayed death
And if God grants one, he grants both.
So why do we say death is not of God?
We pray for sunshine, and heat is part of it
We thank the first for drying our clothes
And curse the later for making the earth burn our soles.
Such pettiness!
Why can't we be thankful for
Rainfall and flood
Long life and death
Sunshine and scorched Earth
All at once?
If one being created nature
The credits and blames should be to him.
Should it not be so?
4
ON HOW MEN SEE GOD
Ask man to define God
And watch him talk and brag
About a flawless version of his being.
I think man's perception of God is rather narrow
What if there's more to God than the flawlessness?
What if perfection is not the only thing that defines God?
There most be more to the being of God
Than what perception man draws from his imaginations
There's no way the beauty of heaven will be just golden gates.
I don't fear God for the sake of it
God in his mysteries have taken the status of the unknown
And in all I've learnt
I've learnt to fear the unknown for it's unnumbered possibilities.
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- Ifiokobong Etuk
(KING of the QUILL)
Which line(s) could you relate with?
5.
THANKSGIVING
We call God times more than we can count
For problems. For help. Whenever we can't get our hands around things
So basically, we're cry babies that can't move a finger without calling the father.
Oh! I almost forgot, we call to criticize him too
And we call to tell him he doesn't even exist.
Puny beings!
I think religion made it that way
"Call God whenever you need help and he'll be there"
It's written in the book of every religious basics
And paraphrased to attain some level of the same difference.
Then one part comes a little bit too late.
Thanksgiving!
How often do we call God to show some gratitude?
Spare me the trash of self-righteousness
And tell me the last time you did some appreciation.
For the last gram of oxygen you swallowed
For the last second you just spent
For the last time the miracle of waking up happened
When was it?
Are you ever thankful?
Am I?
Are we?
?
#my_contemplations_on_God_and_man
- Ifiokobong Etuk
(KING of the QUILL)
Which line(s) could you relate with?
