If God resides in Heaven but no one remains to worship him, does he still exist? In an otherwise religiously-charged retelling of the creation story,
Ted Hughes' translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses muses upon this question and decides that man and god are inextricably linked through life and death. Indeed, man may be god made, but it's much likelier that god is man made.
God as he was, he knew
That earth's and heaven's lease for survival
Is nothing more than a lease.
That both must fall together -
The globe and its brightness combined
Like a tear
Or a single bead of sweat -
Into the bottomless fires of the first, last forge.
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