Terrestrial Doubts Poem by James Browning Kepple

Terrestrial doubts

As another sun goes down on the underground
One reaches up for light

For the gutters, those covered corners
Have provided your mutation space to misform,

Corrupt ones keen mind, to denounce,
Accept, and deliver this new creation ascension

For to be hiding your whole life
Denies the desires of god

And in night ones height is measured
In the fleeting lightning bugs, one by one

Who determine a solace in ones mind
To look up in awe at the sky, and fly

Moments of burst and wane, plague and work
One reaches up for the light

And it holds one there, a love of flight
Tied to the turning of tides, seasons of despair

Summer laughter, glorious falling leaf
Soaked up and in candour, released

Spread out before us this architect
Has planned

A bounded desire up