Divinity
Jehovah hovers, prying with that eye,
All-seeing gaze, omniscience. Worse than
That sideways eyeball of Egyptians, Spy-
In-Chief, He’s always seeing if He can
Trip up and punish. He comes down in the cloud
And fire on Sinai and writes on stone
With brimstone finger for a slavish crowd.
Olympus filled with gods loves to cry and groan
On battlefields of suffering man and horse.
Divinities lie back on couches by
Their grapes and nectar, laughing in their coarse
Frivolity. Their childishness is sly.
..The goddesses join in the jeering fun.
….For cruelty, the gods can’t be outdone.