Musings
Poetry by Whyte
Self Portrait
It doesn't interest me if there is one God or many gods.
I want to know
if you belong or feel abandoned.
If you can know despair or see it in others.
I want to know
if you are prepared to live in the world
with its harsh need to change you.
Of if you can look back with firm eyes and say
this is where is stand.
I want to know
if you know how to melt
into that fierce heat of living
falling toward the center of your longing.
I want to know
if you are willing to live
day by day with the consequence of love
and the bitter unwanted passion of your sure defeat.
I have heard in that fierce embrace
even the gods speak of God
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