"God" by Langston Hughes

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.