Is Everywhere Nowhere? Poem by PARTHA SARATHI PAUL

I have heard trillion of times,
God is there, here and everywhere;
dim eyes of bird brains fail to see...
God smiles in a child`s grin
God talks in lovely indistinct words
And romps about even in guise of a pariah
And even rests in a lifeless black boulder.

Did He pay a visit at the concentration camp?
Did He close His eyes at the sight of Holocaust?
Did He count the toll in the battlefield of Kalinga?
If He really is there, here and everywhere
then He has infinite patience or as great toughness
as one citizen of a metropolitan city or a rustic of a hamlet.

If He is the supreme judge of the universal and ethereal court
then trials go slower than earthly snails
and butterflies turn caterpillars in too long a logjam!
He may be there, here and everywhere
like a mute spectator or a device now completely out of order!
And believers like stupid fellows are waiting for their recess
with all empty tiffin boxes for ages and ages.....