Edward Hirsch - My First Theology Lesson lyrics

Rumpled and furious, my grandfather's friend stood up in a bookstore on the North Side and lamented the lost Jews of Poland and declared that he felt sorry for God who had so many problems with Justice and had become disillusioned and sad since He wanted to reveal Himself to us but couldn't find anyone truly worthy (it was always the wrong time or place in our deranged and barbaric century) and so withdrew into His own radiance and left us a limited mind and body to contemplate the ghostly absence, ourselves alone in a divine wilderness.