No Fickle Trickster, God

PAD Challenge 10; Here is our next prmpt from Robert Lee Brewer at Poetics Aside!
Wow! We’re already one-third of the way through this challenge, and I’ve been impressed (as usual) by the creative approaches to each prompt. It never fails to amaze and delight me to see a prompt take life once in the hands of poets.

For today’s Two-for-Tuesday prompt:

1. Write a deal poem.
2. Write a no deal poem.

Imagine being at the mercy

Of a God we could not trust

Known for shady business dealings

Stealing, trickery and such

What if seeds were stripped of bearing?

Or the bud bereft of bloom

Or the sun slipped from its mooring

And ricocheted off the moon

What if night might stay forever

Morning, an uncertain thing

What if just for fun He ordered

Winter again, after spring

Imagine being at the mercy

Of a God that we could prove

No bigger-than-mortal-answers

No unfathomable love

What if grace was just a fable

And faith didn’t need our prayers

Everything spread on a table

Like a merchant selling wares

What if, with vile angst and trembling

We, without His Word assured

Approached death with nothing more than

Maybe soul will be secured

Imagine being at the mercy

Of a fickle, two-faced God

Who, instead of dealing kindly

Gave us just what we deserved

…where the air would scar our faces

With the curses we have spewed

As He deals with the excuses

Explaining ingratitude

© Janet Martin

 He has not dealt with us according to our sins,
            Nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.

Ps.103: 10

 Whether you've read it 100 times or never...

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Psalm 103