Poet's Nook:"Abandonment" by Aljedaxi Rēcha’daf

“Why has god abandoned us!” he cried, teary eyed, to the heavens.

“You’re looking in the wrong place,” said God;

“I am here, where I’ve always been:

in the warblings of the brook, 
the whisperings of the trees,

the sprays of the seas;
every beat of a butterfly’s wing, & 
every tweet of a bird in the spring,

is me.”

“It was you who abandoned me,

when you resigned me to life in heaven.”

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