When Man Leaves No Place For God (Refrain Stanza Sequence) Poem by Gert Strydom

(in answer to I. D. du Plessis)

With science to the moon man has gone,
to the planets and the stars further on
he wants to jump and to the most distant place
with weapons that do all life erase
and he argues that God do exist in myth alone
but out of His thoughts comes everything,
secret to Him there is no kind of thing
where He knows He is the originating One
to the planets and the stars further on.

He who with his secret science observe
the baby-steps of man and his audacity and nerve,
laughs at man's idea of the age-old explosion
mourn about Lucifer and man's lack of devotion
where every single thing does Him serve
while man has no idea about the spark of life,
are with the idea of a higher being in strive
where timeless He knows the destiny that man does deserve,
the baby-steps of man and his audacity and nerve.

where humans argue that anything they can do
but that God does really exist they do not have a clue,
where nuclear science brings forth more deadly weapons of war
and humans do kill each other in acts of gore,
while with technology man has a great breakthrough
and for total control man does compete,
while other humans they want to defeat,
while the principles of hatred in all of this is true
but that God does really exist they do not have a clue

until all of this brings forth a terrible judgement on man
when the power of evil and selfishness do the world span,
where man acts as if he does not anymore see his own iniquity
and God is forced to intervene to set the righteous free,
where some people twist nature to the vilest things that they can,
when fire pours down from heaven and the earth-crust opens with it
where God does in His great final judgement sit,
where the schemes and rage of man do the flames fan
when the power of evil and selfishness do the world span.

[Reference:"Mens en ster" (Man and star)by I. D. du Plessis.]

© Gert Strydom