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To a God Unknown - A Poem

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British countryside sunset. Orange glowing light over fields.
© 2025 Joshua Chandler-Morris

I felt you in the crisp morning light

And your hand on mine the night Oli died

And you stirred all the oceans within

when everything else ran dry


And I see it in the stars, and in the webs the spiders weave,

the worlds that the artist’s brush conceive

and the songs that raise the hairs from my skin

when the heart has succumbed to the mind

 

The poets always described you better than the priest,

the man of nature knew your patterns better than he

 

Yet they still speak your name and describe your ways,

giving words to the mysteries that will always remain

and pretending to know your divine will

imagining they’d understand the ineffable

 

The sun rose on me again,

and 34 years in the awe still remains

I thank God and yet beyond a name,

you’re still a stranger to me in the dark

 

But the goldfinches were on the thistles in this morning mist,

and I wondered what I’d done to deserve all this,

as Dolores slept upon my chest

I found Eden in those trusting arms

 

So if I’m Cain’s son and the descendent of sin

and the serpent still lives just beneath my skin

then why do you bless me with such crushing bliss,

when I present you my meagre yield

 

I tried to find you in the holy scriptures and books

but found only signposts and half-heard whispered words

but you were there as a still, small voice

amongst the blessed branches of pine

 

And you were there when hope fell from my eye

and there when suffering filled my mind

and you lifted the veil just long enough

to bring light to a darkened sky

 

To a God unknown, I feel your grace

in the forests and in my daughter’s face,

and I sacrifice and carry my weight in the hope that I’ve earned my part

 

So I tread on your soil with a softness of touch

and try to add only kindness and love,

hoping that although not much,

my presence brought more grace than pain

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