photo: Pohara, Golden Bay
If I had a god
it would be the sun…
I would thank him in the morning
for my hands warming
I would pray him in the evening
to return the the following morning
I would worry about his absence
and would ask him to come back
but not to burn my daily bread
I would write poems to praise him
while warming myself under his rays
photo: Lake Tekapo, a small stone building near the lake of the same name, which derives its unique colour from stones coming from glaciers that have carpeted its bed. Onne can see Mount Cook (when the weather is fine), the highest mountain in NZ (3,724 metres) in the South Island.
If I were a church
I would be small and made of stone
I would have a single window
opening on a lake so beautiful
that passers-by would stop
to say a prayer
that would resemble dreaming
hovering over the blue waters
