Articles Of Faith Poem by Oleg Vorobyov

One's heart with faith must outpour
to grow on something, cultivate.
Some touchstone in to be immersed
and fatten on it as a bulwark.
Faith's covenanted Noah's Ark
to impregnate and then gestate,
and be born to imago nursed
to soak heart in blossomed flow'r.
Faith is not fickle, tremulous
but hard-rock firm and adamant.
Faith won't betray, nor cede, nor fail,
unlikely change and deviate.
Faith's well administered dose
imbuing tonic, bracing grant
that checks and stems what can one ail
and keeps one hale and steady state.
Faith keeps the wolf safe off one's door -
the incredulity lupine,
to harbor confidence and trust:
no oscillations will intrude.
Faith's rigorous bond and stoic turn
to encompass one and protect
from sinking down in the sea
of raw, unbaked incertitude.
Faith will include, and naught exclude:
it neatly holds all fast, précis, -
all present, future, retrospect.
It will sustain! It will last on!