Name: My God Is A Tree
Duration: P00H01M18S
Description: A recorded poem by Shane Sweeney

My God Is A Tree

by Shane Sweeney

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A recorded poem by Shane Sweeney

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My God is a tree,
a towering sycamore that lives down near the river
it doesn't ask me to pray to it
so I don't whisper wishes to it's branches
it doesn't tell me that it is the only true god
So I see the other trees and i can appreciate their beauty
It doesn't offer me sweet hereafter
So I am always present with it
It doesn't tell me that I am right
or that I am wrong
that I am good, or bad
So I am all things; left to my own devices
People see my god and they say
"what a marvelous tree!"
`Then they wan to classify it
Then They want to record it
Then they want to preserve it
But, one day my god will die
and one day I will die
The right, The wrong
the beauty and the wishes
will all be gone
and that's okay
that's comforting
My god is a tree
and I leave god to god
and it leaves me to me

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released June 29, 2022

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