You would think to build a statue
then to worship it would make you closest
possible to your god, but it doesn’t.
You’re the god since you created that one,
so you’re greater and therefore better.

You would think being independent,
declining to believe something greater than you
could possibly exist would be exhilarating,
If there is no god but you, then you are god,
and there is no higher and you could not be
more close.

If you assist your god by taking over little things,
those he couldn’t possibly worry about,
things like what you eat, how you spend your leisure,
but you’ll leave the big things to him, praying
he heal your uncle, get you the job, do your will.
There’s little togetherness when you ignore your god,
just attempt to control and be hurt when he doesn’t listen.

The only thing left is to give up, to turn things over,
acknowledging you have no control, no power.
That this god, whoever, whatever, wherever he is
must have more power than your none. The only thing left
is to turn things over, to acknowledge he allows you near,
welcomes you, enjoys you, acknowledges the rightness
of our allowing Immanuel, God with us.