God Says Yes To Me by Kaylin Haught

God Says Yes to Me

by Kaylin Haught

(published in Poetry 180, edited by Billy Collins, 2003, Random House)

I asked God if it was okay to be melodramatic

and she said yes

I asked her if it was okay to be short

and she said it sure is

I asked her if I could wear nail polish

or not wear nail polish

and she said honey

she calls me that sometimes

she said you can do just exactly

what you want to

Thanks God I said

And is it even okay if I don't paragraph

my letters

Sweetcakes God said

who knows where she picked that up

what I'm telling you is

Yes Yes Yes

Well, how could anyone not love this poem?

The conversational tone extends beyond poet to reader and includes God to speaker. And Haught's God is female, loving, kind, and supportive--the best type of God!

Beyond that, this poem is a great reminder to stop worrying about the small stuff and the stuff we cannot easily change. Those of us who are sometimes paralyzed by the thought that we are doing it/everything/life wrong need to adopt this poem as our morning ritual.

Yes Yes Yes