God | The Poetry Foundation

I am God—

Without one friend,

Alone in my purity

World without end.

Below me young lovers

Tread the sweet ground—

But I am God—

I cannot come down.

Spring!

Life is love!

Love is life only!

Better to be human

Than God—and lonely.

Originally appeared in the October 1931 issue of Poetry magazine.

Copyright Credit: “God” is from The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, edited by Arnold Rampersad with David Roessel, associate editor, © 1994 by the Estate of Langston Hughes, used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc. and by permission of Harold Ober Associates in the UK.

Source: Poetry (February 2012)