Morgan Freeman for God

I've been thinking about starting a Facebook group called "Morgan Freeman for God" in parody of these presidential race groups. I mean I checked today and the Steven Colbert group has over a million people in that group (and he doesn't even want to be president, he just wants to run for president). The idea was inspired by watch Evan Almighty the other weekend while I was on the plane. Perhaps it was because I was trapped on a plane, had low expectations, or the sound kept going out, but I enjoyed the movie. I had decided not to see it in theaters because of poor reviews, that was probably still a wise decision. Anyways, while looking up Morgan Freeman on IMDB I found a link to every person who has played God in a movie. Apparently there have been more then 200 roles of God in movies, with various plays on the name, my favorite being De Lawd. I had to check out the movie with De Lawd, because it was the last item on the list (and there fore listed at the earliest movie with a character God)(I'm sure there must be other movies with god that came out before 1936 but they aren't listed). Anyways this movie is apparently a serious movie and not a parody. I can't imagine why they used De Lawd instead of God in their credits, perhaps they felt casting someone as God would be sacrilegious.
Well De Lawd inspired another poem, it isn't very fancy but I decided to try my hand at blank verse, I'm not very good at it and I need the practice. The poem is kind of interesting for me since I am basically talking about speaking with God at church. I haven't been to church in many years and haven't followed any mainstream religion in many more years than that. So we'll just see how this turns out. 

Speakin' With De Lawd

Always on a Sunday morning I see
him not too far away. Never does he
give me the answers I am looking for,
But he does give me answers that I am
in need of. If only those were what I
really had asked for. My questions are what
he is really interested in. I am
not defined by all that I do, rather
it is all the things that I question that
he believes define me. So on Sunday
mornings, I listen to your answers and
I question what they mean to me, because
I know he has plans for these answers that
might just be beyond what we comprehend.

Copyright 2007 William Curb