Ella Wheeler Wilcox, “Illusion”

 

 God and I in space alone And nobody else in view.

 “And where are the people, O Lord?” I said.

 “The earth below and the sky o’erhead 

 And the dead whom once I knew?”

 “That was a dream,” God smiled and said, “A dream that seemed to be true, There were no people, living or dead, There was no earth and no sky o’erhead There was only myself—and you.”