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Once in no-time

God gathered volunteers

from the star-souls

and sent them to planet earth

to take birth

as soft-shelled beings

God gave them free will

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Then the Divine Presence kicked back

to watch what would happen

God hoped, perhaps, that these

be-skinned creatures would quickly

recognize their divine natures

and build for themselves

communities of love and beauty

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Certainly God, being God and omniscient,

knew already what would happen.

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Did God weep as its human creations

made cities of ugliness, fought over metals

and plots of land, inflicting death and injury?

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Was this really what God wanted?

To wait and wait until a few people

perceived their Creator and their true source?

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God must have foreseen

that all would descend into chaos and ruin

and his precious experiment would fail.