The Job Who Said No

The Job I had in mind
is just like the other
ragged, broken
blistered with boils, bereft of kin
herds scattered and lost, dead
aimlessly wandering without reason
or meaning or desire

But this Job who I've been pondering
did not get to yes
but found within a resounding no
who rejected the test
and the Tester and all of the
silly pointless suffering

No, no this Job is the one who
in rejecting the Demiurge
put forth a challenge
to come forth and reveal himself
from behind the veil
and explain and justify
what "He" had done

And Job listened.
At first there was a comforting voice
the voice of a Fathers soothing his Child
But as he listened he recognized
that it was his own inner voice
Job was talking to himself somehow
He was soothing himself:
speaking to himself as though he were a Child

And so this Job did not listen to that voice.
In the black cave, the wind whirred
And he listened carefully and heard nothing.
Thats what Job heard and therefore knew:
he knew nothing at all.
There was nobody there but himself.