' God's Shadow Poem by Doral Deepset

I was God's
shadow.

Everywhere he was
(I was) .

And when he saw
that it was

'good'

I saw it
too.

And how
good it was.

As he walked
through the dreams

of humans

I fell across
their little lives

like loss.

I was always
cast

as the bad guy

the mystery
of how

the good of God
could be bad.

Now I have detatched
myself from his

holy feet

snipping myself off
at the soles

& hid
myself away

in this desert
of loneliness

far from any living soul

a shadow
(hiding in the shadows)

blameless now
of all the good

that God doesn't do.

And that is why
God had to invent

the Devil.

A fall guy.

Someone else to blame
for all the pain

when God just gets it
...wrong

Which is why
I have all

the sympathy for
the Devil

(who...God knows)

doesn't even exist
except as one of God's

eternal excuses.

An imaginary being
to take the rap

when God
messes up.

I lie like
any other shadow

a shadow
amongst shadows

hiding in the shadows

just trying
to exist

(not to exist)

in a world
blinded by the light

trying not to

exist
as myself.