If Every God
for
Eliot Katz
If every God is omniscient, why don’t all
Gods speak
of the omniscience of all other Gods?
If every God is
the realization of the equality of all beings,
why don’t all Gods realize the equality
of all Gods?
If every God’s
commandments are embraced as holy truth,
why aren’t all Gods’ commandments holy
truth?
If every God is a celestial medicine, why aren’t
all
Gods the celestial medicine of all
other Gods?
If every God is
a universal random bohemia, why aren’t all
Gods the universal bohemia of all other
Gods?
If every God is
a terrible perdition, why don’t all Gods speak
with terror of the perdition of all
other Gods?
If every God promises
peace & the rewards of afterlife, why
don’t all Gods promise the promise
of all other Gods?
If every God is
within and without all that is born & unborn, why
don’t all Gods reside within &
without all other Gods?
If every God offers
infinite comfort to the lowly & most high,
why don’t all Gods comfort infinitely
all other Gods?
If every God admires
good works done freely, why don’t all
Gods admire the good free works of
all other Gods?
If every God knows
no impossibility, why don’t all Gods
know that all Gods know no impossibility?
If every God tastes
like honey cured in the mouth, why don’t
all Gods taste the honey cured in the
mouth of all Gods?
If every God created
the world in its own image, why don’t
all Gods see their image in every God’s
world?
If every God has
its own chosen people, why don’t all Gods
hear the cry of all other chosen Gods?
If every God sings
the glory of creation, why don’t
all Gods sing the creations of all
other Gods?
If every God is
a remote language sobbing, why don’t all
Gods sob for the remote language of
all other Gods?
If every God is
a maze of nearness, why don’t all Gods
maze the nearness of all other Gods?
If every God lights
the shade of darkest faults, why don’t
all Gods light the shade of all other
Gods’ faults?
If every God resides upon a cosmic mountain
throne, why don’t
all Gods reside upon the cosmic mountain
enthroned?
If every God is
an uninterrupted consent, why don’t all Gods
give their uninterrupted consent to
all other Gods?
If every God is
a soldier of the past coming to protect you from
what has already happened, why aren’t
all Gods soldiers
protecting all other Gods from what
has already happened?
If every God hates
blasphemy, why don’t all Gods hate
the blasphemy ascribed to other Gods?
If every God plagues
the world for taking the name of God in vain,
why don’t all Gods plague the taking
of the name of all
other Gods in vain?
If every God reins
supreme, why don’t all Gods enjoy the
supremacy of all other Gods?
If every God is
far more than a love far more than this, why
don’t all Gods love far more than this
all other Gods?
30 January 2002