Easy Bake Oven, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB/META and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter)

Angel food cake, potatoes you bake
Wafting aroma, your nose does intake
Lasagna and cheese, your mouth it will please

Pizza pie, that gleam in your eye
Not the place for a baby to die
This all powerful God didn’t even try

To save J’Zyra Thomson from being fried
The adults left them at home, the toddlers did roam
Around the kitchen , and to God this was known

The twins thought it fun, to to make her a bun
Into the oven they stuck her and they turned it on
When the parents got back from the drug store

They found her well done
It horrifies me to know this happened
What was God doing, was he napping?

Made the universe in the blink of an eye
Yet this all powerful God didn’t even try
I cannot say that I am even surprised

6 million Jews, slumber at the switch
9/11 also, God doesn’t make a twitch
Are humans mere lab rats for him to play with?

The kids in Gaza, kids with cancer
I seriously have never gotten a good answer
Fall of man, Eve is to blame

Free will excuse,
All to me are lame
Does this deity ever feel shame?
(end)

Based on a real horrific true story. J’Zyra’s parents left her and her twin 3 year olds alone while they went to pick up pizza and prescription at the drug store. While they were gone, as kids do, they play, but being 3 year olds they don’t know what dangerous objects can do. Pretty sure it was just a game of hide and seek, or maybe they were pretending to cook, but didn’t know what the oven could do.

Now many would say, “Don’t blame God” it was the “free will” of the parents that cased it. Since when does that mean a child should die because of the stupidity of the parents? To me this is just as sick as the story about God murdering all the Egyptian firstborn over a beef he has with an Adult Pharaoh. What could 19 month old J’Zyra Thomson possibly have done in her short life for this allegedly “all powerful” “all seeing” God to sit upstairs with folded arms and say, “Meh, I know the baby will die in horrible pain, and won’t know why they died. I also know the other kids will grow up scarred for life knowing they accidentally killed their sister, but I get to do what I want and I don’t have to explain myself to anyone.”

I would say that either God is inept, malevolent/cruel, or doesn’t exist.

There are American sources to this same story, but they all require subscriptions or have ad blockers. I posted this one because I could get around it. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-26/texas-toddler-dies-in-oven/6975238

Disclaimer.: The title of the poem is not a reflection on the real kids toy by the name “Easy Bake Oven” . It is just used as poetic license as metaphor for the poem.