[Marlo]
Silence feels awkward
when left to decide alone
what is real or not.
Two opposing views might skew
toward the disharmonious
without consensus
to heal contentious feelings
between honored friends.
Infants and tots are not blind
and they are not refined minds
inclined to resolve
and solve their difficult choice
of whom they should trust.
Nature’s way is more simple.
Needs nag infants to score help.
Thus cries and screams scheme
to solicit reams of aid
to fade cruel hunger
or replace wetness with dry.
Trust and faith are not churchy.
For the most part, start
with the belief in a god
as relief from pain
or to gain your reward for
goodness or righteousness lived.
Then there is this phrase,
“Keep the faith,” spoken to raise
one’s hope without proof,
aloof of uncertainty’s
random toss of The Fates’ coin.
But consider this:
human existence may wish
for intelligence
to achieve false omniscience
but such acquisition breeds
and feeds known hubris
bemoaned in ancient Greece as
unfashionable
with tragic ignorance owned,
shown to be society’s
chief Achilles’ heel.
Our science cannot be
truly omniscient
since mystery and wonder
are always and forever.
Since all knowing lacks
feasibility, we must
grasp humility.
Humbly and publicly we
must own that we do not know
all aspects of acts
we extract from the choices
in circumstances
we must navigate with smarts
to impart success in lives
wanting to survive
and then to thrive to high peaks
of social success.
In not knowing all there is
to know, we go with courage
that our choices
are favored to bring a win
and great rejoicing.
This courage flows from faith’s strength.
Actual outcomes surmised
do not comprise lies
but aren’t ever true knowledge.
They are but beliefs
and beliefs are but movements
and faith’s manifestations.
Such is Kevin’s state
of mind to find his beliefs
which is his real faith.
Do the owners of the coin
conjoin to deceive or free
souls to flow quickly
and easily over rocks
and rugged terrain?