A readiness to speak of God
Language rich, embossed, subtly constrained:
Mythology obscured a paradigm, becoming
Proud defence in confident telling,
While evidence eroded the certain stem
Reason subverted the loud Amen.
Longing for means beyond self to hope
Oblivion's abyss would not foreclose
Remaining dreams, receding echoes,
Defying fears of paradise bereft
Until only a trembling soul adhered
Holding earth-bound symbols for comfort's form
Honest to God, faced facts revealed
Unreachable vastness, eternity's bounds:
What of language of objective form?
Creating sustaining shoring hope?
What meaning now meets human depth?
Of presence divine and presenting sense
Waning assurance of God-bearing signs
New space for intuitive and empirical knowing
Difficult companions, learning a language
Of Spirit, of hope in human form
Traversing Earth's indifferent ground,
Emerging, contributing, welcoming return
There is no abyss beyond a fear
Of personal loss and the ego's despair
Once Parnassus held imagination secure,
Until all enchantment dimmed before
Eternity's infinite mirror of inner being, inviting
Wonder, paradox at home's hostile shore
© John Fairbrother
28 November 2013
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