Unbelievers believe …

POSTED IN contemporary poetry July 6, 2013

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unbelievers believe …

 

Unbelievers believe they are right
Based upon a lack of insight
Speaking only of what they see
Disclosing its very paucity.

An inner life they can’t describe
Is greeted with a diatribe
A wholesome fear of being misled
Frightens them away from what is said.

Mistaking faith for blindness
Only fools show kindness
Images appear
From the things they see and hear.

Courage to engage in symbolic thought
May give them a glimpse of what they sought
When truth was found in denying
Things they had not seen for trying.

 

 

Raymond Joy