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God is lonely too

Emptiness is Eternal

By Isaac RamaphalaPublished 8 months ago 1 min read
God is lonely too
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What do you want from me?

A question asked when everything you gave is not enough

When the ghost that has drove you mad does not leave you alone,

When they constantly drag you down but does not want to separate

A question Cain should have asked God rather than kill Abel,

A question God should have asked Nimrod rather than cast him out

A question which can only be answered with silence,

Which pleads for the other to stare at their insides

What do I need from them if they are not enough?

For those who thinks of themselves as enough would not look your way

Will not allow you to beat them and beg you to stay,

Will not fill your cup while theirs remains empty

I want you to be empty!

This is what the silence from the question means

Cain should have simply made sacrifices till he had nothing left,

Lucifer should have simply kept all those questions he had to himself

Your mother should have simply have remained quiet and took the beatings,

And maybe,-

Just maybe- her life would have been spared

Just maybe,-

The first biological man would not have killed his brother

Just maybe,-

There would not be Heaven or Hell

And just maybe,-

You will not be on your knees begging for a relationship which will be your grave to work

All the just and maybes because I want you to love yourself,

Look at the bodies you broke and tell me you love yourself

Look at how Job kept worshipping you for you to love yourself,

You destroy me so that you can love yourself

This is what you want from me and shall get.

Stream of ConsciousnessWriter's BlockLife

About the Creator

Isaac Ramaphala

I write from a perspective of a suicidal butterfly.

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