When God Created Us All, We Were Not Left Alone Poem by RIC BASTASA

it is true and i agree completely
when God created us all
we were not left alone

he created the rivers and the seas
to tell us that we must flow and be deep
and be wide with compassion

he created the skies that we may always
look up to the wide expanse of this
unfathomable love, this universe

he created the earth where our fellowmen live
so we all become coals hot with cinders
unsegregated from the fires that burn
within us, lest we become cold and nothing
but ash, blown by the wind and then forgotten.