Everything's Lighter Than This

Etta James and Jonathan
Edwards agreed, we disgust
God, our filth and misery,
Like spiders over the fire,
Although Edwards thought we could,
Contrite spiders, save ourselves,
While Etta thought God just laughed.

That's how analogy works.
Imagine someone holding
Us over a fire, laughing
As we wander the desert
Searching for him, and then think
What that does to perspective.
Awful Gods we have in us.