My God
confronted with things about you
I have never seen nor may not ever see
I take stock of what I know:
That there's no end to knowing you
but I would lie to say that I know nothing.
That I'm convinced—but cannot prove—
it was you who told me I was home.
That all these years since then
there's been an inside job—
my heart's been going soft
so I am crying more and more
and tasting people from the inside out
and seeing so much beauty
it is hardly wonderfully bearable.
That over and over I have been revived
by dreams by songs by people
and I believe—but cannot prove—
that you are the subversive source beneath them all
who likes to do such things the way that nature
multiplies and reinvents herself
so we are overwhelmed.
That if all this has nothing to do with you—
which I can never prove—there still remains my gratefulness.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
Wow, this is intensely personal and yet well expressed so that readers can share your emotion. I like the inside job and tasting people from the inside out - a bizarre concept, but perhaps I know what you mean. And the ending - last repetition of which I can never prove - and your gratefulness, is very effective. Sometimes people say to me that I might be wasting my life if all I believe in turns out wrong. Never! No matter what the future brings, having lived my life this way has been rich and rewarding, and I'm very grateful for it.
laurie, i was just revisiting this poem and saw your comments and saw i never replied- sorry! so let me begin by saying thank you for reading and commenting on it. as for the naysayers, those who deny or who have not yet seen, the evidence of God is everywhere- in all the love, in creation... the wind blows and we cannot see it, but we can see its effects. glory for the wind, the spirit, of God! glen