Sade

The Truth

Do I need the God my wisdom casts aside
to explain to me the laws of nature?

Within her, everything is motion;
her creative womb acts at every instant
without the help of any prime mover.

What do I gain by doubling the mystery?
Does this God truly explain the universe?

If he creates, then he too must have been created,
and I remain as uncertain as before.

Flee, flee far from my heart, infernal imposture;
vanish, and yield to the laws of nature.

She alone has made all things.
You are only the nothingness
from which her hand once drew us
when she created us.