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Why Us, God? Sacred Poetry

by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole

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Apr 27, 2026
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Why Us, God?

In the garden Satan asked,
Weary with his thankless tasks,
Why God made this final ape,
Uplifted with soul and shape,
From Creation’s primal mud.

Of his own, he knew it well,
Why he was consigned to hell,
Ordered to the monkey serve,
But from this writ had he swerved,
When envy within him bud.

This…

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