#1226 - someone asked me if I was a believer

 

1226

11.v.23

4.131

someone asked me if I was a believer

 

it was out of the blue

which is well known

 

I fitted them with laughter

made holy like a ghost

 

I was asked if I believed

it’s personal

 

one could of course say ‘science’

or simply ‘not my style’

 

they won’t take silence though

I credit the limitless vast

 

someone asked if truth

and I said ‘here we are’

 

I don’t believe the open air’s a cave

or what you have in mind

 

the beard the mountain

forty days and nights

 

it’s all these generations

just to get over

 

the light beyond the night ache

will I be understood?

 

nor by garment

these days tell

 

believing in time’s obscuring

one’s to asl

 

who’ll come to guess

but it’s morning somewhere in the world

 

I saw the sun

but knew it’s we go round

not to look directly

 

I believe that the end is nearer

feel it in the bones

 

what need worship?

prayer folds the paws away

 

raise hoof to quaff

why else?

 

it could go either way

no one ever knows

 

I believe in the round of the sky

I believe in the tree

this reach and breath

 

and unto thy care commit