"Imaginary Friend"

[sral]

My childhood was amazing, I was happy to pretend,
with a wild imagination and imaginary friend!
The man possessed the strength to orchestrate as he pleased
and I'd imagine he invented the landscape that I'd see.
He had raised up the trees into seminal oaks
straight from the seedlings as he sped up their growth.
In an effortless motion they'd shoot up and rise,
having leapt for the open cerulean sky.
The beautiful sight that was slowly appearing
was both truly divine, and of his own engineering.
He was in control of the seasons, with a wave of his hand,
the foliage seemed to obey his command.
He populated the land, and the heart of the sea,
creating the animals that shared the garden with me.
I marvelled in seeing what his mind would create
as the remarkable being conjured all sizes and shapes.
The smile on my face disappearing somewhere
between realising too late, that he wasn't there...
My ethereal entity had no name to assimilate our bond,
but others teaching his whereabouts have given him a lot!
Elohim and Yahweh were among the many names
and synonyms for God plenty others said he claimed.
There was no test of faith for me, it never entered my thoughts
He was just a friend of make-believe that I left at the door!
There's no demiurgical force that lies at the basis
of when the universe was first formed or life was created.
I realised at age eight that his very existence
was of my own creation back then as an infant.
And I was never religious, just happy to pretend
I had a connection to "Him", this imaginary friend!
A pal that I'd invented who would come and go again
and that was where it ended, I was under no pretence.
I would have been content with knowing he was fictitious
in my younger adolescence, without a need for religion.
Yet Veritas, being a Christian, still clings to the hope
that some featureless visionary made all existence alone!
Like this mythical figure had chosen to produce our surroundings
now once I was a little bit older, I realised how stupid it sounded!
It's truly astounding that between us there's no clear difference,
one child's amusement amounting to a grown adults entire belief system...