Sylvia Plath Addressing God

Who are you?

Where are we going?

Where are we?

Answer me Damn it!

Look at me, you devil

Look at this creature you think you created

“Forgiving sins” – HA!

I’ve been trying to rid myself

Of your “eternal love”

Since before I was in the womb

You’re the one who made men powerful

Made them think they own the world

Made them superior

Then you made women

Second might I add

Second to your greatest creation – Yea right!

Women to bare children

Women to keep a house

Women to make dinner

Women to love their husbands

Let me let you in on a secret “God”

MY husband left me for another woman

MY child gone - dead

MY home houses my ghost

MY oven is were I took my life

And then my child’s

Gaseous fumes chocked the life right out of me

Did you watch?

Did you watch me kill myself?

Take myself out of your perfect little world

How could a God so forgiving and powerful

Watch his creation crumble

Watch me suffer and simply

Stand by

And not by my side

Stand by

And just watch.

And so again I ask

Who are you?

An all-loving father

You are not

Daddy issues