Bon a fide

Remember that the smallest seed of faith is of more worth than the largest fruit of happiness. - Thoreau

Paradoxically free and costly both.

Abundant when I don't.

Scarce when I do.

Plodding a not-so-tight rope.

Balancing a doubting pole.

No net, at the peril of my soul.

Lame legs dance.

Muddy eyes see.

At the going price of blood.

Returnable in a flood.

A holy jam.

Called forth from the horn of a ram.

Could it be he's running a scam?

A burning bush.

Hands pressed together and reason told to, "Shush".

Not happenstance but comeuppance.

Everyday.

Causing me to pray.

Why must it be this back-and-forth way?

Essence made to submit on bent knees.

Not what I think but what I need.

Oh please dear Lord.

Hear me when I plead ...

Author's Note

"The mason asks but a narrow shelf to spring his brick from; man requires only an infinitely narrower one to spring his arch of faith from." - Thoreau