"If There Were No God" by Dee Lambert

This week a friend sent me some of her poetry. I think she should be published. She gave me permission to post this one:

If There Were No God

If there were no God,
How would I explain
A bright red bird on a dark and dreary winter day?

If there were no God,
How would I explain
A cooling breeze on a hot summer day
That seemed to come from nowhere
Just to cool my face?

If there were no God,
How would I understand
The bittersweet pain of a baby's cry?

If there were no God,
How would I ever know
The rocking arms that held me in my greatest pain
And shared in the tears that came,
So that I would know I was not alone?

If there were no God,
Who would I thank
For boundless joy that comes from
Nothing extraordinary?

If there were no God,
Who would have heard my borning cry
Or stilled my fear of dying?

When all others have gone, and centuries have passed,
Who would remember that I was here
If there were no God?

Copyright 2008, published by permission of Dee Lambert

-- The writers' group which critiqued her work hopes she will build a new poem around one passage we redacted:

If there were no God,
Who would live on the mountain tops
Where wind echoes across ancient graves
Nestled on the edge of cliffs
At the edge of Time?