They say that God is everywhere.
I know the Christian one and he's not what I find
everywhere I look.
The one who claims to be love
but in his teenage years ordered genocide
and never said a disapproving word about slavery
He's pretty easy to find
in the words of preachers and books
in church services
in imagination
He's not so easy to find
in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
in the chocolate slave trade
in the famine and ethnic cleansing of the Sudan
in the greed of Wall Street or the drug trade
in the segregation of the churches
What do I find
everywhere I look?
the light of perception, awareness
Lying in bed, awareness is present
Walking down the street, awareness is present
Sitting in front of the computer, awareness is present
Sleeping a dream, awareness is present
Driving the car, awareness is present
Watching the news, awareness is present
Talking to a friend, awareness is present
Lost in a daydream, awareness is present
Wherever I look, awareness is present
Where awareness is not,
I find nothing because
I can't even look.
