My God, Your God Poem by Claire Abbott

Regardless of religion, creed of belief,
I thought your God, whichever one,
Was meant to be good, spreading love.

So why is this world such a mess?
War, famine, drought, flooding..
hatred, plagues, disease and more.

How can a God that apparently loves everyone,
manage to impart suffering on so many lives.

How comes, if God loves everyone,
some religions teach that if you don't follow them,
you won't go to heaven?

If God is so great, why does he not stop the suffering of this world?

If God made everything, and knows everything,
why does he not stop the evilness and wrong doing,
before its even committed?

And if forgiveness is granted by God,
why are we taught that there is a hell?
Surely we are already there,
God just needs us to realise it before we can reach heaven.