Sometimes I wonder if individuals
in different places, times and cultures
invented the many gods and goddesses
all across the peopled planet
promoted them to the point
others began believing in them
accepted them as real
felt moved to worship them
in other words, like fake news
many people believed
the imaginative, fake stories
of gods and goddesses
of course, the other possibility is
visionaries, knowers of the unknown
seers of the unseen
could have been chosen
by gods and goddesses
as worthy to be revealed to
revealed and manifested
real and genuine
I have to admit I like
the second version better
the genuine instead of
the imagined
but I tend to believe
that it’s plausible
the Absolute
in Its infinite mercy
would honor the beliefs
the ones imagined
and they eventually
would become real
conduits to the Divine.
Bob Boyd