On the Certainty of God
May 17, 2021
Cannot be proven; go further, go
To experience, so to follow God:
That is the way says Father Zossima
Nor might I try or bully, foster, you
To new believing;
So much is not within the language given
An opulent Popper meditates there is no wording
Spoken; written;
But that waits on potent probabilities
Of skewed misprision; misconstruction unavoidable
So too, whose father-form got Derrida,
Nietzsche, unbuttons ‘play’, the constant merry creature
Of all uncertainty
And health; and he counterpoints pathology;
This dancer on high ropes who celebrates
Contingency
Admirer of the yardarm, standard, ever wavering
In winds. Kept true the mariner innate despite performs
A course deliberated regulated pensively
The salty roughs, its froths - all God’s
Flares minuscule deflections thousandfold
Bearing upon a line supplied by introspective eyes -
A mariner’s restitutions
For sure squire Thomas Fuller bothers us regards election
Salading ample tracts with rapturous scripture indication:
That a Bible should subsume subdued by mortal sorters,
God’s pilot log reduce to testate formulae
These are the thrashings to know the very nature of the fit
Whereas only passion’s inexactitudes might rightly flit
Here, there; perform enough to keep a welcome night-light lit