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Why Us, God? A Sacred Poem

The mystery of our making

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Feb 20, 2026
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Why Us, God?

by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole

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…

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