Poetry | Spirituality

Conversation with Faith

by Claudia S. Gold, Illustrated by Australian artist Denise Daffara

Ego, with spears and knives — I must carry arms.

Let faith talk to you.

I must stay armed. I was injured by my dear one’s words.

They were hers if you do not attend to them. Let it go.

Now I’m reaching to listen to faith.

I ask, “What is faith?”

It holds you. It opens doors to everything.

Faith will give you depth and height to the high infinite.

It will embrace you and unfurl your heart beauty.

It would be good to stand for something.

It takes you on paths of spiraling understanding and unfoldment.

It takes you to trust very little treasures that turn into big ones.

It crowns you with hope and a path of light within.

It wraps you in a shawl of trust and peace.

It is a nectar that enables you to see stars around your head.

It is a bird that takes flight through the ages.

It is a cup washing your face from frowns and sorrows.

I bow to faith as my teacher.

I am yellow and bright radiance above and in your heart glowing.

It starts in your heart and flows down your back always always always.

How unused I’ve been, Creator, a faith failure.

Those rare, close times — I’ve missed!

At their loss I’ve angered.

I found happiness those moments.

I do find happiness In You. By the fence I encountered wild white roses You created, then roses scented everything.

All became new, that loss is tremendous.

That charm, that change, that transforming openness of heart, mind - I miss it, I miss enkindlement soooooo much.

I haven’t said prayers. I’ve judged people left and right.

Can you lift whatever it is off my shoulders because I don’t know what it is?

Faith, it is a swing that carries you to eternity.

It is a taste, a flavor, that satisfies.

It is a love that opens inside.

It contains you vertically.

It scratches the itches of your soul. It makes you want to enter its courts.

It helps you see a library of significances.

Will you be with me stay with me, be with me?

I will bless you with hope and ascensions abundant as dandelion seeds scattering in wind.

I thank you, faith May I always be with you.

Thank you for this Illumination about faith.

I will always enfold you if you listen.

Come to Me, I will embrace you , bring you close to My heart.