Finally you have a name for it,
that distant, other, eternally-plural presence.
Not a beetle-browed patriarch or an earthy queen,
Not male, female, gendered at all.
Just an all-encompassing they.
On your left, on your right, in the center, outside, they.
Hallowed be their name.
Pronouns for God
December 1, 2021
Photo by Iswanto Arif on Unsplash
December 2021
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