Scrivener’s Error

The Being
of Love, Light, and Laughter
Whom Some Call
God –
I Prefer Creator
or, How About
Maker?

Why Has That Being
Been Typecast,
from Primitive Tropes,
as Being an Unsmiling
Demander of
Worship and Obedience?

Who Once Dealt With
Failure to Bend at the Knee
With Enough Rainwater
to Submerge Every
Earthly Inhabitant,
Infant or Grampa,
Plant or Creature,
Until They
Stopped Breathing.

Except for Eight Survivors,
Huddled In a Boat,
Forewarned to Bring Along a Small Zoo
of Four-Legged Critter Pairs.

What If
That Maker
Is Truly a
Cosmic Comedian,
Who Once,
It Is Reported,
Had His Son
Tell the Crowds
They Must Become
Mischievous Children-at-Heart
To Merit
The Maker’s Grin.

To Become Robin Williams,
or Lucille Ball,
or The Marx Brothers,
or Those Little Rascals?

What If
“Being Worshipped and Obeyed”
Was a Sad
Scrivener’s Error?

(Photo By Yunus Tuğ; UnSplash)