polytheist

i'm starting to think that the greeks
were onto something
that One God was just not enough
the temple was crowded

so 
they split our Parents at Their virtuous seams

and worshipped the Characteristics 
of God the Father 

and God the Mother

of course
we know they got carried away 

they learned to forget

to obsess

to profane

but a thousand years have passed

and the pendulum has swungtoo far

forgetful obsessive profane men

in their mad rush to monotheism 

shoved Her 

into storage, under beds, into back garden sheds

and worshipped only Him 
the One they could metabolize

colonize

fight for
die for
kill for

but,

my Creator
is not hiding under a pile of ancient conjecture
dust-covered, dismantled, dishonored
by lazy faithmakers who insisted there must be Only One

She was not smothered by negligence

drowned by ignorance

or silently vaporized by doctrine

She smiles the dawn

She breathes the tide

She paints the night

She pours the rain

She speaks the grain

She raises spring from the dead

She cradles billions of heads

in Her lap and brushes our hair because 

She is Mother 

She, a Perfect Partner, created

all of the tragic folks who tried to erase Her

defame Her

destroy Her

they are Hers

and She is there, pushing the pendulum back this way

smiling

waiting patiently 

for us to clear the cobwebs of small mindedness

and build Her a temple in our guts

one that cannot be rationalized into disappearance

explained away by unimaginative sexism

no.

we must build in our guts a temple

that can house

Her and Him

our Creators

our Gods