Seek and Ye Shall Unfind
Steve Dupere 1963 (MA)
My faith dangles
an open bluff
where fantasy and form
rise and fall
to affirm the doubt of
a faithless man’s contrition
I have felt the sweep
of spirituality
raising and lowering the dell
of reflective pursuit,
of worn tarsals,
and chafing feet
sensing the enticement
of many a man’s heritage
What fate drifts me aloft,
seeing nothing,
no God,
no pedestal,
no threshold,
no fulfilling promise;
as in all direction
the motives of hastening
and withering wisdom
of lesser men’s motif
leaves me stumbling
the stony salvation
of reputed Gods
and blank-stare nothingness
I stand bewildered,
equal to an assumed deity
amid a calamity of virtue
and extremity of
zero-point naivete’
which bind me
to my selective heaven
My revelation:
I am my defect;
pursuant to remnant, troth and cortex -
an ever-widening vibration
having incurred the sterility
of skin and bone
and stillborn salvation
About this poem
I offer this piece respectfully for all people's beliefs, but, in doing so, I also must impose some hard questioning and more probable supposition. This is a poem about the mystery and improbability of man-proposed God. I am not saying there is no God. I am merely pointing out the near infinite scraps of evidence to the contrary of a biblical-conceived God that appears to have been perpetuated by man as a means of manipulation and control.
Written on January 10, 2023
Submitted by Symmetry58 on January 10, 2023
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| Scheme | AXXXBC XDXXAXXX XEXXXFCEXXECXF XDXBXDC CXXCDXC |
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| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 912 |
| Words | 175 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 8, 14, 7, 7 |
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