Czeslaw Milosz

Here you will find the Poem Theodicy of poet Czeslaw Milosz

Theodicy

No, it won?t do, my sweet theologians. 
Desire will not save the morality of God. 
If he created beings able to choose between good and evil, 
And they chose, and the world lies in iniquity, 
Nevertheless, there is pain, and the undeserved torture of creatures, 
Which would find its explanation only by assuming 
The existence of an archetypal Paradise 
And a pre-human downfall so grave 
That the world of matter received its shape from diabolic power.