Where Epics and Divinities Come From

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The reason that the thought of God or gods

Arose in man’s existence is like need

For poetry. When humankind just plods

Along, its heart and mind together plead

For something wonderful to sing inside

The soul (if soul there be).  If women, men

And children have bits more than just a hide

Around them, they will feel a certain yen

For things like poetry, a certain god

And such like things.  The spirits (if there be

Such entities) were yearning to be awed

And searched for things like mist’s eternity.

  So, almost certainly the aching will

    Result in prophets, gods and other swill.

© Phillip Whidden