Garth Rakumakoe

Faith

Men of vision see

many a physical defect

in others and around

blind men have yet to see

 

Nonetheless I believe,

oblivious to blemishes abound,

blind men have seen many

spiritual gifts and treasures

men of vision will never see

within and without

for it is the very physicality

of their inconsistent blinking light

occupied with the visible wrong in the right

that emblinds them

 

Melting, like a candle near the sun,

teary, distorted, sad and wailing

their inner peace is an abandoned child

yearning stillness in sound, yet lost

pointing and accusing its self made

noise, judgments and crowds

 

Quietly orbiting beyond the realm of sight,

faith, cometh by hearing

and need not

the self-righteous I, a certain light

only blind men can see