The gift of almost nothing

if I believed in God
I would tell him
you didn’t do such a hot job
if I believed in God
I would tell him
this masterpiece he created
is just a pile of mud and sticks
slapped together haphazardly
lacking form, function, and cohesion
but I might tell him in a gentler tone
no one wants to offend the sensitive artist
if I believed in God
I would ask him why he allowed turtles and alligators
the gift of hundreds of years of life
and gave us humans with our marrow filled shells
miles of veins and arteries
and a sponge cake of this thing called a brain
which is capable of seeing over
every single movement we make,
every color of the rainbow and then some,
allowing us to climb and jump and tumble
laugh and cry and roll our necks in circles,
hear the rain falling and the thunder
giving us the gift of pain and pleasure
and the uncertainty of which is which
I would ask him,
if I believed in God
why did you give us so little time?

 

If humans had more time, would they just destroy, maim, exploit, deforest, pollute and kill more?

Tortoises and cockroaches are much less destructive.
Alligators kill to survive.