I read "Once There Came A Man" and I liked it. Most of the poems I read of his I didnt like, mainly because I couldnt understand them. Like the in the desert one, I dont understand that. But the one I read was about God I think. All God asks is that we do simple things for Him but instead the whole world fights. He wants peace, yet we continue to fight. Or this could be about all humans over complicating things. We are assigned a simple task but we make it as difficult as possible. This poem is ambiguous, and I think that Stephen was proving multiple points with this one poem.