Another Chance

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If half the spinning galaxies of the universe have sun stars with planets

and

if only half of those planets host intelligent life

and

if half of those populations resemble humans on Earth

and

if half of those peoples take their lands and seas and skies into ruin,

the Great Mother of Creation must have known this would happen.

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Will this omniscient Creator gather up all the sorry star-souls remaining

on planet Earth

and

lovingly place them somewhere new in the vast universe?

Will the Great Mother of Creation give them a fresh, clean planet,

green and blue and flourishing, saying,

“See if you can do better this time”?

Time/No Time

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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.