Faith – a poem by Jeffrey L. Taylor

Faith

Faith asks me to trust the teaching
to walk in the dark, on the faint
path that she assures me
has been trodden before.
To follow where it leads
down from the high mountain
into the canyon
with the wild rivers running,
scaling cliffs that seemed
impossible from a distance,
to gain a further mountain
though I see not the path
until I walk it. Knowing
its presence only
through the soles of my feet when
the dark night, the dark woods
leave sight useless. Faith
is the evidence of things hoped for,
the presence of things not seen
until the moon rises,
once more showing
the path I am on.

Jeffrey L. Taylor is a retired Software Engineer. Around 1990, poems started holding his sleep hostage. He has been published in The Perch, California Quarterly, Loud Coffee, Texas Poetry Calendar, and Texas Poetry Assignment.