The Enigma Poem by Somanathan Iyer

Long ago very long ago
Accessible was God to
every humble human
laughed and cried, He
along with the humans
as long as ethics and morals
formed part of the human life
as long as every one
prayed for others
as long as God was not
connected to religious symbols
as long as there was
no divide based on beliefs
God vanished away, once traits
Of greed and selfishness
took over the humans
The single force that
Pervades the entire universe
claimed in different forms
confined and condensed
to different faiths!