Faith
by Steven Gowin
I have faith in no god.
But black holes suck in matter and supernovas explode. And that goes on forever. Einstein said that energy is infinite.
I probably misunderstand, but it makes more sense than virgin births, and seer stones in a magic hat.
We just cycle around. I was a junkie in another life, and what animated Great Great Granddad shows up in the tomato we picked yesterday.
Hell, I can live with that.
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Author's Note
James Lloyd Davis' Garcia Lorca's ghost and the wine in the kingdom of heaven inspired thoughts about faith or lack there of.
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Truth to power, this. Very good, Steve.
Faith and the lack of it is difficult to express. The lack of faith is often the soil in which it grows to fruition.
I love the verse from the Book of Proverbs: "The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord, searching all the inward parts..."
This is honest. Thank you.
I ain't touchin' this one.
Those lightning bolts leave an awful burn.
It's hard to exist cheek by jowl in a world of magical thinkers. Like this. *
Like all the elements here and their trajectory.
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Exceptional approach. Nice work.*
Faith and art coexist. They must. But...there always is that "but," right? Very good, Steven.
splendid. *
Well, if what you are saying is true and energy is infinite and we just cycle around, hell, why limit our cycling to life. I might have been a rock for a million years, or part of a star. The sun even. Some days I'm sure of it. Fave *