Consider loving God who we have not seen face to face, yet trust with our lives and heart, and with Whom we take the risk and open our hearts—to feeling affection for another human for years and finally, open our hearts to them, not knowing what their response will be, or knowing what lies ahead. So this poem addresses both those relationships, the one with God, and this one with a human with whom we take the risk and expose our heart.
Dry Brush Painting of Twilight Terrestrial Path,
image created by Thomas Fideler using AI
FIND THE DAY
Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point.*
Tumbling heart-struck over common sense
Down this twilight terrestrial path,
With eyes fixed upon the surrounding hills,
I lay down every belief and hope
Before the clear, fiery eyes of inquiry,
Discarding all the weighty accumulation
From all my days of rites and sacrifice
To teraphim of my own design and hand.
You protest, “To brash!”—but I demur,
There is not time enough for less,
Than to live for hope where passion burns.
We choose to live or die each day
Upon the search for light and truth, and
If we expose to fire all we believe,
And lose what, desperate, we have tried to save,
We will, held by love and hope, find the day.
Thomas Fideler
*quote by Blaise Pascal: “The heart has its reasons that reason does not know.”
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