What If

WHAT IF

What if man had created the world?

Would all the pine trees be

isosceles triangles, would autumn leaves

turn only red or yellow,

would he have thought to make

a back swan or a brown-speckled

gull or kept a crippled boy?

Would he have thought to make

irregular things, would it all be molded

at the factory? Would he have thought

to have seeds carried by birds or pollen

carried on wings of bees or thought

the tiger should rip open the youngest,

weakest yak for lunch and would we

write poems about hummingbirds carried

thousands of miles on the winds or snowflakes

playing six ways, each one a singularity?

How many faces could he have made for people

to wear, how many ways would they love

and hate and how many ways could

their different eyes see the world?

Would man need to make things just so

and not let seeds fall and become what they may?