FAITH

In the first chapter

Of meditating thoughts

Are revealed

Uncertainty, anxiety…..

Interwoven

With dreaded unconfidence

And polluted

With external pressures

Like

Faithlessness

 

The cue is chosen

The words ring

Loud and clear;

Faith

 

What means

This word

Of Varied definition?

 

Faith of the divine Being?

Faith of destiny?

Or faith in oneself?

 

But one’s self

Is faithless

When destiny

Places cat and mouse

With heartless tigers

 

Where does one seek

This faith?

 

Does he grow confident?

Of physical endurance?

Of mental superiority

And the hope of reward

For his effort?

 

This is faith in one’s self?

 

Does he beg allegiance?

To divinity

And lend all his powers

To the Almighty:

Body, mind and soul

And declare himself

Saved?

 

This is faith in divinity?

Or is he heedless

Of the natural world

And soothes himself

With destiny

In which the result

Is always benefit

No matter what

The sign post said?

 

If this is faith

Then leave me no part

For I seek more

I seek glory in self scarifice

To thy neighbor

 

To do them
As I would have them do me

 

To bear no pride

Which seeds the

Grains of destruction

 

To seek no treasure

And accept none but love

Give me this and

Yours be the rest

 

I am tired and weary

Though the sound

Of the starting gun

Rings through my ears

And the hardships of

The track

Are still ahead

And the finish line

Far over yonder hill

 

When the race is over

And I am the winner

Give me not medal
But definition

Of faith

A present to

Mankind

A trophy

Unconquested

But a symbolic hope

 

This give me

And I am

A happy man

**************************EW Verigin winter ???, 1960, (uncut)***************************