SOURCE: https://www.saltproject.org/progressive-christian-blog/2023/1/25/god-by-langston-hughes
KEYWORDS: Lonely, Loneliness, Alone, Emmanuel, Incarnation, Christmas,
"In this poem, like an ancient prophet Hughes rails against the all-too-common religious portrait of God (including and especially among Christians!) as a kind of pure, distant monarch or judge, imperious and alone. "
I am God —
Without one friend,
Alone in my purity
World without end.
Below me young lovers
Tread the sweet ground —
But I am God —
I cannot come down.
Spring!
Life is love!
Love is life only!
Better to be human
Than God — and lonely.
