God was Made for Michaelangelo to Carve in his Closet

God never smiles.  God never weeps.  In art

God waits in Time outside of time, that Time

We call Eternity.  God does not have a heart

In sculpture.  God never does chat time.

God does not do a FaceTime session or

A TikTok friendliness.  The prophets see

God (maybe; maybe not) along with Whore

Of Babylon.  They grasp infinity

(Or maybe not), more likely when as Blake

They write the zing of poetry as mad

Hallucinations grab them.  God refuses ache

(Unless He’s praying in His closet.  Sad.)

  God doesn’t even walk in art, much less

    Run.  God is made of marble with largess.

~ Phillip Whidden