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)***************************