Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, DO YOU EVER FEEL LIKE GOD?, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY


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First Line: Across the court there rises the back wall
Last Line: Benevolent, all-knowing, and tender.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): God


ACROSS the court there rises the back wall
Of the Magna Carta Apartments.
The other evening the people in the apartment opposite
Had forgotten to draw their curtains.
I could see them dining: the well-blanched cloth,
The silver and glass, the crystal water jug,
The meat and vegetables; and their clean pink hands
Outstretched in busy gesture.

It was pleasant to watch them, they were so human;
So gay, innocent, unconscious of scrutiny.
They were four: an elderly couple,
A young man, and a girl -- with lovely shoulders
Mellow in the glow of the lamp.
They were sitting over coffee, and I could see their hands talking.

At last the older two left the room.
The boy and girl looked at each other....
Like a flash, they leaned and kissed.
Good old human race that keeps on multiplying!
A little later I went down the street to the movies,
And there I saw all four, laughing and joking together.
And as I watched them I felt like God --
Benevolent, all-knowing, and tender.





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