Gods, by Langston Hughes

God the Father with the symbols of the fourth apostles (tetramorphos), know as The Trinity, by Pieter Coecke van Aelst

Langston Hughes

Gods

The ivory gods,

And the ebony gods,

And the gods of diamond and jade,

Sit silently on their temple shelves

While the people

Are afraid.

Yet the ivory gods,

And the ebony gods,

And the gods of diamond—jade,

Are only silly puppet gods

That the people themselves

Have made.

#Americans #Blacks

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