How Can God Bear It?

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"abaa">After praying for an hour, the question crushes me: how can God bear seeing everything at once?All the dying breaths, the stillborn births, the lovers throwing away their dreams in hole-in-the-wall restaurants with flickering candles, the junkies in back alleys tying off veins, the homeless women pushing shopping carts down Main Street as snowflakes gray in dim streetlamps.The question carves time into fragments of eternit

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y too big to swallow. I don’t want to know how many stars have already died. How many days are left in my life?Does it matter how many times I’ve tried and failed? Spiraled into depression or flown too close to the sun?I want to lie next to my only lover, stroke the familiar curves, whisper her simple name. Release me from your sight. How many prayers will you hear tonight? How long must I wait for an answer?</article></body>

Seeing everything at once

After praying for an hour, the question crushes me: how can God bear seeing everything at once?

All the dying breaths, the stillborn births, the lovers throwing away their dreams in hole-in-the-wall restaurants with flickering candles, the junkies in back alleys tying off veins, the homeless women pushing shopping carts down Main Street as snowflakes gray in dim streetlamps.

The question carves time into fragments of eternity too big to swallow. I don’t want to know how many stars have already died. How many days are left in my life?

Does it matter how many times I’ve tried and failed? Spiraled into depression or flown too close to the sun?

I want to lie next to my only lover, stroke the familiar curves, whisper her simple name. Release me from your sight. How many prayers will you hear tonight? How long must I wait for an answer?

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How Can God Bear It?

Seeing everything at once