A God

Someone who has influence and power

Someone who can make the Earth tremor below

Causing fear or happiness or both in the crevices of the frightening world

No

Not someone, but something

 

Images

They tell a story, always different to passersby

Words

They spell ideas out, and arguments too

Some worse than others

Sounds

That which relaxes the hurt, the pain, the suffering

Or perhaps that which causes it

Movement

Expression through actions

A simple expression, but one with enormous power

 

They give a subtle glance

“Get a real job”

“How will you support a family?”

“How will you make money?”

A God need not hear such things

A God needs no such things in his life

But the God hears

And he hears well

 

Lucky them, a doctor is respectable

A doctor hears no such things

A doctor is well respected

But whats this?

Anti-vaccine? False information? Home remedies?

To give the gift of health but they turn it away?

To be accused of lack of knowledge?

Surely it is in jest

Surely

 

A gift they give, but received it is not

How is it so?

The gift of ever present knowledge

The gift of remedy and prevention of disease

The gift of entertainment through sound, words, movement, pictures

Is it a waste?

Was it all a waste?

 

They struggle internally

On one side, a popular pariah

One who is viewed as giving little contribution

The other side, the dismissal of intelligence

The refusal of gifts which may strengthen the mind and the life

 

They observe

What hypocrisy

Perhaps they are not followers

Perhaps they too are Gods

Perhaps they all are gods

 

The artificial takes over the sonic waves

The words discarded over video entertainment

Images locked away in history

Dances become more profane

Knowledge turned away

Health becomes optional

 

“It is the gift of knowledge”

They turn to it

Approaches it with contempt, with hatred

They analyze it, see if it can be remedied

They look

Distraction

They look further

A gathering of likeminded individuals

Even further

His works

His teachings

His truths

All of them there in front of him

 

A smile

His smile

Tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap

An understanding emerges

His gifts were not squandered

“Hello, ‘Apollo’

Welcome to the internet”