Poetry Friday

God Wrote a Book

No, not that one
Everybody thinks He
wrote that one,
but He didn't.
He's a better writer than that.
Those guys just
went on and on
and did they bother to edit?
No.
But wouldn't you know,
you mention a name
and you're in.
So they said,
"I didn't write it,
God wrote it."
A sure way
to get out of revising.
But God wrote
His own book.
He wrote it for
one little boy.
Just one.
He read it to the boy
At bedtime
because the boy couldn't sleep.
So God read him a book.
The boy grew up. He became a writer.
Which one?
Not telling.

~Cynthia Rylant
from God Went to Beauty School


(I love this book. Read it. My favorite poem is actually "God Got Cable.")