#100poeticanswers 13: When God Said Let There Be Light, Did He Say Please?

This question was asked some years ago by Bea. The result is either blasphemy or just really odd.

Well I’d never been so insulted.

So annoyed

There I was.

Minding my own business.

Doing my job

Being the eternal void.

When here He comes: 

Himself. The Don. Big cheese.

And suddenly

It’s “let there be this

Let there be that.”

Not so much as a “please!”

Light and land and water

Stars and moon and sun 

Animals and birds 

All kinds of tat.

I said “I’ve got a livelihood here mate.

I can’t be the eternal nothingness

With you cluttering up the place

With things. “

Of course by then it was a bit too late.

I wasn’t too impressed.

But when I tried to tell him to his face

“Oi! Keep it down” he says: 

“Can’t you see that it’s my day of rest?”

I don’t know who he bloody thinks he is.

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