Where Is God? Poem by RIC BASTASA

after all those walks
in Bethlehem and Jerusalem
even in Horeb or
Sinai

after the sail in Galilee
and the Nile

having seen the wall and
the separated people and

the wailing of those faces
on the walls

from the faces of the young
soldiers of Israel and

the hungry Bedouin children
in St. Catherine

this i tell Elias, and also
to Anas

God is not on those stones
and the walls

God is inside the hearts of
men and women

and wherever they are
within their hearts there

God Lies.