Where Is God Poem by Jim Yerman

Sometimes we humans can be so cruel…so unfair…so shadowy and dark…
A little girl is kidnapped, killed, then found discarded in a park.

Children are being murdered…for that matter people of all ages
Families flee into our country and are immediately put in cages.

Children are bought and sold for sex…women are abused
Survivors of these tragedies are left bewildered and confused

After every horror we create…in this country and abroad
we appeal to the heavens and ask the question…Where is God?

I wonder whenever we see one human-made tragedy end only for another to begin
if, instead of looking out for God…we should be looking in.

What if God is in each one of us…in our kindness…in the way we live
in our smile, in our touch…in our ability to give?

In a hug, a touch…a kind gesture…in every compliment we pay
in every act of compassion…in every thank you that we say?

If God is but a feeling in our heart in our mind and and in our soul…
then shouldn't we be trying to discover her…shouldn't that be our goal?

What if this is our mission in life…what if this is what life is all about
to discover the God in each of us…and invite her to come out?

If we realize that the God we look for is with us all along
then perhaps we'd stop asking where she is…
when we've done something wrong…