Faith

Through the door of Birth,
      enter in Creaturehood the room that is Being Itself.
Act only to perceive the contents
      of the room: What Is.
Proceed with humility as a student of all
      you encounter.
Ask no questions in anticipation of what you may find
      the room to contain,
For asking such a question requires that you first posit
      its terms,
            limiting your subsequent perception
                  to that which you prejudge fits
                        the frame of an answer.

Entering the room of self-aware Being,
Go in Observation.
Go before questioning and the framing of questions,
      before the invention of answers,
            before begging the permission of language
                  to predict or second Perception
                        or communicate Understanding.
Go without burdening Memory
      with anagramming Futurity.
Go intent only on Seeing.

This, and only this, is Faith.


November 30, 2005–February 2, 2006 Copyright © 2005, 2006 by David Newkirk (david.newkirk@gmail.com). All rights reserved.
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