[Faith] a poem

Leaping across an intervening distance,
what was revealed was that man
has left to bear his very susceptibility
collateral it may be,
he believes,
he has faith,

he steps out on faith even
when faith has proven time &
again an unreliable ally.
But he believes inasmuch
What is the alternative?
to lie and await his definite end?
his finite days to close in a twilight
shudder?

Only half of the story of this life
is told to the child &
the other half is ignored by
the man and woman chancing
resplendence, seeking a paper
womb to re-emerge in,
in yet another far-fetched hope
the placental sea will remove
the universality of pain
and of that metaphysical hunger
that will outlive us all,
the genesis is believed to have
been solid, without flaw;
we see the paradox everyday



Dontrell Lovet't
from, [The Paper Womb II]