bones Thomas feels that God is not far away He is close to the human heart He is inside every leaf and heartbeat Nature becomes God s temple Death as Holy and Peaceful In A Refusal to Mourn the Death by Fire of a Child in London Thomas speaks of a child who died in war But he does not cry He believes death is not the end He says After the first death there is no other The child becomes one with God one with the earth and sea Her soul joins the great cycle of creation Thomas turns death into a holy sleep His faith is calm quiet and deep To him God takes the child home in peace Nature as Church and Prayer In Poem in October the poet celebrates his birthday like a prayer He walks from the sleeping town to the hill There nature feels like heaven He says O may my heart's truth Still be sung On this high hill in a year's turning The hill becomes his church The rain birds and sea are like hymns He remembers his childhood as a time of pure joy and innocence His prayer is not with folded hands but with open eyes to the beauty of God s world The Human Face of Christ In There Was a Saviour Thomas talks about a Christ-like figure The saviour brings love and forgiveness to a world full of pain He says There was a saviour Rarer than radium Commoner than water This saviour is not only Jesus but also the goodness inside every human He heals the world with love Thomas shows that religion is not about fear It is about kindness care and sacrifice True holiness lives in the human heart Prayer for the Dying Soul In Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night the poet prays for his father He says Rage rage against the dying of the light Here light means life faith and soul The poet begs his father to fight against death to keep the fire of life burning This poem is full of love and prayer It shows that fighting for life is also a form of faith It is man s way of saying yes to God s gift of light Dylan Thomas s religion is full of life not rules He finds God in every flower in every birth and even in death His faith is human not holy in books but real in the heart He turns nature into a church and poetry into prayer In his poems God is not far away He breathes in every living thing