Sunless, damp, and drizzly day —
Today;
Grimy slush pockets in a lifeless woods;
Yesterday’s clear path
Overgrown with treacherous bramble bushes.
Where is my faith? Where is my faith?
A whistling wraith. Where can I find my faith,
Today, on this sunless Sunday?
The Supremes are singing novel tunes today;
A completely different style with a sanctimonious smile.
Today’s Chevy at the levy is a thousand pounds too heavy,
Dripping blood and oil from the bubbling boil of its cranky crankcase.
A hole in the ground, today: A Holy hole;
And, all around I hear the desperate screams;
See the people scrambling; feel the flames;
Taste the broken dreams awash in a salty sea.
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And, so off we go again, half-cocked
On yet another Crusade and once again
The children bear the brunt;
The children feel the flame;
The leaders claim the fame.
“The shot heard ‘round the world” has transmogrified:
“The shots heard all around the world.”
The New Centurions run roughshod
All around the world just because we can.
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All my eggs were not in one basket.
But, today, even the baskets are unravelled —
Shredded reeds scattered all about the floor
Eggs splattered against the open door.
Where is my faith? Where is my faith?
A whistling wraith. Where can I find my faith
On a sunless Sunday, a damp, and drizzly winter day —
Today?
Cardinals, singing, robins, crows;
Scampering squirrels.
Onion grass, the red florets on maple twigs —
These are my counselors; these are my coaches –
Ministers to my soul, healers of my heart.
Not the famous, complicit in the illicit;
Distracting the base and baseless base
That has become our sad and hollow home.
Life grows; life knows.
Summers always melt the snows.
And endless greed is yet a sterile seed
That sows its own demise,
While wisdom, ah, sweet wisdom
Will find and mind the wise.
I imagine, John. I imagine still.
I imagine, John. And I always will.
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