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The Rest of Humanity
By his acts you shall know him.
By his thorn-filled faith and sinful cuts,
bodies racked with disease and affliction,
minds shattered with lonely despair.
Drafts of winter air bring cold spells
and intolerable mold –
an assembly splintered inside
all the way to sunset.
Evening comes …
you lie down in resigned coffin stillness,
subject to your own staked heart.
Wherefore this sleep must we in languish yield,
but the rest you keep for yourself.
Revolved within this affinity,
the world wheels from its quiet state …
and with the best of the formal,
the highest of the diligent on mathematical tour
beget figures housed in scientific paradox:
without a savior, or even a forerunner;
and I … ashamed … long asleep in sin …
with no morning Elijah call.
Faith over Fate
You are right to upbraid;
you are (holy) right:
this poker hand I dare not play, yet cannot toss aside.
Determinism to be not avoided,
but always to be interlaced with stronger and stronger thread,
pulled tight by heaven;
gaming the system,
and in the light of faith over fate,
maybe assigning weight
to even smoke-filled parlor air.
Retreat
I make myself a home inside my head –
where I say, I am whole,
and so I am.
Sometimes the mind sits upon a pinhead:
oft to ponder, by whose great will
does anyone continue to stand.
I hear with understanding; I speak with understanding
the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Truly, though, it is a child’s understanding,
half-hidden in vanity’s twilight.
Let me not offend the more deserving:
the foolish gain no favors by their pleading.
Creation is still in want … in counsel the scarcity of truth.
I have come to the priest’s house.
Questioning Some
Absorb and Discard. Enough!
Enough these passion strolls along amusement piers,
pretending to be startled by carnival rides:
recording only,
so safe behind fences, beyond the double lattice,
so safe beyond redemption –
for whose marvelous skill of secretary, these words,
even these words, pronounce my guilt before the world.
Dr. Walter Boswell
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