Religion
It's easy to invent a life,
From Further Poems of Emily Dickinson (1929)
Religion
It's easy to invent a life,
God does it every day—
Creation but a gambol
Of His authority.
It's easy to efface it,
The thrifty Deity
Could scarce afford eternity
To spontaneity.
The Perished Patterns murmur,
But His perturbless plan
Proceed—inserting here
A Sun—
There—leaving out a Man.
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Dickinson, Emily. “It's easy to invent a life.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/527/.
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Dickinson, Emily. “It's easy to invent a life.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/527/.
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