Faith Copyright Robert Fullarton 2013

Faith

 Copyright Robert Fullarton 2013

Against the darkest

Pit in the universe

I can do nothing else

But have faith

In the bellows of death

And the gallows of life

I can do nothing else

but have faith

In the hour of the choking trial,

The poison kiss,

The crippled body

The humiliation

The abandonment

The hanging

The burning

And the sacred tear

I can do nothing else

But have faith

All bodies

Are given up

To mounds and heights of meaning

Sacrificed before mighty flames

She does not love me

They have left me……

I can wallow

Bottom of the bowl

Chase

And perchance strike

Desire

But now the winter

Is overlong

And seemingly everlasting

And all in all

Time

History

Life

Death

Fate in making

And remaking

I can only have faith

What else can I do?