You Tell Me This Is God?

You Tell Me This Is God? - meaning Summary

Faith Reduced to Objects

The speaker responds to an assertion that an object is God with blunt denial, recasting the claimed divine as a printed list, a burning candle, and an ass. The short poem collapses religious reverence into mundane, even absurd, things, provoking skepticism about worship, representation, and authority. Its terseness forces readers to confront how symbols and rituals can be mistaken for the reality they signify.