1/3/19
Fear Not Faith
Fear is the caption over the photo
That engulfs me
It is the leaf that gets in your hair
Of where you don’t know came
It’s the thoughts in the back of his head
That God doesn’t think you could handle
Like hers
Faith is crossing the street blindly
And not getting hit
It is folding your hands together to pray, on the bus
So that an angel sits next to you
It’s wearing shoes that you know might be dirty
But that you hope are good to go
Fear is chewing with your mouth open
In front of your boss
It is not tying your shoelace while you are bicycling
It is the clouds that form overhead but don’t
Emit raindrops
So that you are left dry
It is feeling different about someone, but still
Not knowing
If that person is good, or trustworthy
It is not turning up your furnace because
You can’t afford it
Faith is doing it anyway
It is tying your shoe at the intersection
It is running in the rain
It is going to a basketball game with
That previously foreseen person
And liking it
Faith is praying the moment before you fall asleep
And having a dream to live for
Just like this poem
It is the bow in her hair
The cast on his leg
The computer on my lap
The sun at 5:15am that defeats
Your prayers
Faith can’t live without fear
Because faith comes from God
Fear wants to defeat faith
Because it never comes from nothing
When I learned to pray it was a whole new world
That came to me
It’s like sleeping forever
It’s like getting what you want
It’s a way to meditate so that
You don’t need to feel productive
The sun will always come through, though,
Even if you see fear despise faith
And faith defeat fear