For He That Wavereth...

"They will cry aloud at last that the truth is not

within Thee, for they could not have been left in greater

confusion and suffering than Thou has caused,

laying upon them so many cares and unanswerable problems.

So that, in truth, Thou didst Thyself lay the foundation

for the destruction of Thy kingdom, and noone is more to blame for it."

[The Grand Inquisitor to Jesus,

in Fjodor Dostoevsky "The Brothers Karamazov"]



One is supposed to be submerged in belief

Somehow by a miracle

And from then on to swim in it

As in the least ambiguous of elements

And even just a glance towards land

The thought that one perhaps might be there for something

else as well as swimming

Even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature is sin!

What they want is an eternal song over the waves in

which reason has drowned