FORTRESS OF FAITH

Inspired by desperate need, built on a cloud of promises,

The bulwark is reinforced with family precedent, buttressed

By fellow believers, congregation fellowship, pastoral,

Persuasion and encouragement sometimes in breathtaking

Buildings that have stood for ages pointed at the heavens.

The famous leap reaches its foundation but it’s assembled

Wtih theological infrastructure, and constant praying.

Faith accepts the miraculous with its power of awe that

Science and experience find impossible, so what other

Incredibility, improbability might not seem plausible?

Humanity is such a fertile field for any beliefs, so

Disposed to any kind of superstition, so readily

Convinced nothing happens by accident, so alert

For “signs” wandering through our unfamiliarity

With this mysterious world and its many strangers.

One maintains the fortress steering clear of any

Information or chatter that looks or smells vaguely

Skeptical, potentially heretical or blasphemous.

Eventually the fortress becomes invulnerable as

Faith, not based on reason, dismisses its arguments.

Fortresses are structures for defense of course,

Constructed to keep something out, protect a

Vulnerable self within who has committed itself

Fully, forever to this enclosure, this exclusion

Of the world outside stretching to the horizon.