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The day is full of promise, so why not I?

The morning air is crisp, the sky is clear

The sun is pushing through the silhouette

Of winter trees, so why should I fear?

If you are in the sun and in the air,

If nothing can exist without your law,

If everything cell confirms your gift of love,

Why am I still shaken to the core?

Could it be your silence frightens me?

That knowing you are there is not enough;

Those indications of transcendent truth

Are pretty useless living in the rough

And tumble of our daily human lives

As in a moment all the world dissolves

Into a mass of contradiction, wrung

With guilt, adrift, and nothing holds.

For some maybe, faith hangs on by a thread

Hoping you are there, still in control,

While chaos laughs at our naivety

Believing that you over-arch the whole

In some comprehended innocence

Linking quantum leaps to summer rain

Answering all evils with a kiss,

All will be well, for Daddy's home again.

If only - but the silence never ends;

And faith is fragile in the face of facts

Hurled by the rationalist and scientific

To analyse potential god-like acts.

Brian Hick February 2013

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