Monday 10 January 2011

Elegy for an atheist

















The apartment was in darkness and he invited me in to watch the sunset. It all seemed rather forlorn

Andrew Anthony visits Christopher Hitchens in New York, November, 2010

God is the life that inhabits us all
Even in Christopher Hitchens as he
Watches a sunset standing in the dark
Life leaves our bodies; we do not leave it
It's flowing through us. It shines in our eyes
God lives in the colours and metaphors
Of medieval frescoes, and of bars
God is most honoured by the innocent
God is always where beauty and love are

Clapton is not God. God is the idea
That placed Clapton is God on the wall –
God vibrates in Eric Clapton's guitar
God is love. Love exists. Ergo God does
God is most of what we cannot see
Ineffable. That which we cannot touch
It's too simple for some, with their degrees
But God's in them. God is not he or she
God is immanent. God is harmony

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