A person outlined against a dark, starry night. Photo: By Klemen Vrankar on Unsplash.

'Open your mind a little to the suns...'

Poem: God

'Open your mind a little to the suns...'

by Alan Haughton (1917–2011) 11th April 2025

God.

A stone word, crude and squat
as the hacked hulk of rock ten thousand years ago,
menacing in the desert
and men kneeling sweaty and afraid.