AN INSPIRED REPLY TO A PERSONAL COMMENT
(Dear Nancy, my old sparring partner, with love)

~ 1 ~

Faith in what? For sure, I'll always hope
Though yet I see without obscuring facts;
Though I may well a better dream promote,
I am aware of what assumption lacks.
I propose no destiny as you feel fit to state.
And if you say the truth you do not know
Then why purport to know an unknown fate
When your own words report that yes, you know?
God surely needs no one to defend his truth
Though the believer might well defend, lest he be wrong
That presumed acquaintance of matters lacking proof
Substantiate the truth where it belongs.
The truth needs not a sentry at its door
Though some may well, its enlightenment, deplore

~ 2 ~

'Tis oft when eager to denounce another
That what is read is not read well enough.
In your own words your own mistakes discover
Before insulting mine with such rebuff.
I stand accused by a biased tongue in error
Who reads my words as they were never scribed.
With frail effort of the facts to sever
The real meaning as is there described.
Are they my words that 'someone' lacks a soul
That physical death determines someone's end?
Or are such accusations surfaced mole
Disturbed by what you cannot comprehend.
'Tis fine to have opinion and belief;
But yet a folly to bring another grief.

©Copyright March 13, 2002 by Colin F. Jones