OMG

We went to the Boonton Coffee Company this week, after stumbling on the thriving art, literature, music and local artisanal scene on Main Street in Boonton a couple of weeks ago. It’s a quirky narrow road cut into a hill in an old New Jersey town where you enter what appears to be the ground floor, but if you go to the back and look out the window you see you’re on the fourth floor…or maybe the fifth. I signed up to read at the open mic and decided to read some prose but almost read the thing below, which seems seasonal enough, given the religious absorption of earlier pagan rites to celebrate the annual cycles on our planet. The room was packed with poets, their friends and the music of words, along with generous applause for everyone.

OMG

 My god is your God.

My god is a god of mercy and illumination.

My god does not speak to me of wrath and vengeance.

My god is nature.

My god is all that is made, including all that is human-made, including god.

My god is all of the human spirit and what we find beautiful around us.

My god is the mystery of creation.

My god’s all-knowing grandeur is a play.

My god is an atheist.

My god knows what you don’t know and what you think you know but don’t.

My god has a terrific and often terrifying sense of humor.

My god torments us all with choice.

My god frees us to make choices.

My god lends us moments of clarity to help make choices.

My god only judges when judgement is needed.

My god is wonder.

My god wonders.

My god is busy.

My god ignores his creation.

My god knows exactly what she’s doing.

My god asks your forgiveness.

My god knows why the last people to trust are the ones that say “trust me” – “follow me” – “they are wrong and I am right”

My god knows the body and mind are one.

My god knows that every god is any god.

My god knows that your god is a god of mercy and illumination.

My god is destiny.

My god is chemistry.

My god is the Big Bang.

My god is awareness.

My god is willingness.

My god is self and selflessness.

My god is freedom from passion and the freedom of passion.

My god is quantum subatomic.

My god is intergalactic.

My god is uncomfortable.

My god knows your god.

My god doesn’t exist except as he-she-it is felt.

My god is existence.

My god is the life of the spirit.

My god is the journey of the soul.

My god is the release from desire.

My god is joy in its every manifestation, including the satisfaction of desire.

My god is a cool, divine sip.

My god is a warm, divine sip.

My god is an understanding that in death, we simply make room for life after us. And in that, and only that, are we eternal.