Quandries
A Poem About Choices and Questions and Apparent Inconsistencies
and wondered did I love he or only my reflection?
I loved the escape from gravity
and wondered would I have a home or was my home me?
Life leached out of me and I had no faith
except some time, some eternity a hand held me to love.
I had a temple echoing of loneliness
and filled it with choir and called it love and God.
I went to the altar of society crying
why do you say that you are me are we and we are God?
I heard the madness call in the night
renounce all faith, renounce your God take me instead as love.
I heard the atoms buzzing from my skin to yours
and wondered is this God or stagnation?
I saw light diffuse into bands of void and power
and wondered is this balance or is this misdirection?
I loved one who has no God no mass no light
who wondered if life could ever touch my heart and ignite his?
I say I have no God no faith only this life
but when dew collects on a spider's web, I know I lie.
God called on me and said you are arrogant, show hubris
and I said I obey all the laws of life, call me I am.
Published by Sheri Fresonke Harper
Sheri works as a freelance writer, novelist and poet. She worked in the aviation industry at the Port of Seattle and Boeing Company for 20 years as a systems analyst/architect where she edited and wrote over... View profile
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27 Comments
Post a CommentA very profound piece....beautiful!!! :)
Wow. "I say I have no God no faith only this life / but when dew collects on a spider's web, I know I lie." That line rocks.
Good poem.
PS: There was so much going on within the poem that I failed to mention how fitting the picture was, too.
There is so much going on in these lines...I know that your faith is apparent here but I also can feel your natural need to question. Excellent work...really makes me think tonight as I write this. Thank you for sharing this with us.
Another great poem by you. Great picture choice too.
Thanks, really enjoyed this :)
Beautifully written!
Excellent and inspiring piece! Great job on this and the photo is great too :)
Great. I experience this as a poem of faith, but one that acknowledges doubt, fear and uncertainty. As such, it exhibits a truth, and that's what poetry is all about; isn't it?