we are all too smart to talk to god

for we know what he really stands for

to him, we are sea sponges, sardines, plankton

to him, he is a great white, a leviathan, a kraken

in reality, we are the ocean itself

without us, he is nothing but a beached whale

moaning and flopping about in desperation

he may have given Moses the power to split the sea

but it has the ability to evaporate, create whirlpools, and tempests

we can confine him to a puddle on land

if we just got brave enough to challenge him

god is a whale shark,

huge, but not the biggest

and oh, so entirely harmless