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Monday, July 14, 2008

Monday Poem: Salvation

[Every Monday (until I run out of them), I’m posting a poem of mine that has fallen out from the submission process for some reason. In most cases, it will be one where I’ve received no response to my submission for at well over a year or more. Maybe the magazine I submitted them to has folded, the submission was lost in the post, or whatever. So, these poems can be seen as lost, orphans, of uncertain status, or something like that.]

These poems are also posted to ABCTales.



Salvation



We do not need to wait for signs these days,

we’ve seen the stars are distant, further still

than distance we can know and reach out for.

They are no longer watchers over us

and all our insignificant small lives.



How this became a day, and not the end

of everything is no great mystery

requiring sacrifice. Beginning day

does not need freshly running blood to stain

the dawn a deeper red, a life for life.



We should have turned away, just walked away

so long ago. All children have to leave

behind the comforting reassurance

of myth and fable, learning that the truth

has not got any special places, lands,

no get-out clauses and no chosen ones.



There are no questions answered only by

petition, nothing out there watching all

to prostrate for, to counter some deep sense

of insignificance and central place

in this our solitary universe.



Do not believe salvation saves the soul

except through reason, wisdom and the mind.

A coming towards understanding all

and knowing understanding can’t know all.

Do not expect the touch of miracles,

and then you will know surprise, wonder and

the true real beauty taking us beyond.



Don’t waste your life on praying hopelessly

for salvation beyond this life and world,

beyond the possible, beyond the real.

Do not let go of life and waste your time

on chasing after ghosts through empty skies.









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