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God or nature?

I do often wonder God or nature
Which is my soul nurturer?
Nature; everything in you moves me in awe
The fruitful orchards, the roseate echo
Of pastorals in midday summer bowers
The grandeur of dawns welcomed by birds’ choirs
The solemn ruefulness of sunsets at dusk
The summer’s haze canopies the forest foliage tops

I used to laugh at art
Scorn songs debase verse
Ancient temples and spiraled towers
Cathedrals spread across empty skies
Arrogance and ignorance led me
To see good men and evil ones with identical eyes

I must admit the guilt
That nature is my guide
I do not believe in God
I deny and abjure all thought
As mankind’s false utter naught
And as far as love that old
Elusive irony, a tale so many times told
I would never be warring to search and to reinvent
It again and again until my final end

Yet I am not air or fire
Weary of living, fearing to die the end so dire
Like a torn tattered bark toyed by time tides
My soul to dread disaster seems to ride

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poem by Isaac Ziv
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