So, faith is certain - John Robert Lee

So, faith is certain of tomorrow’s epiphany

but how to meet the apocalyptic moment of now

under fallen colonnades of the Presidential palace

tent cities of cholera and rape and empty-bellied children

the recurring decimation of mud in the kitchen

friends going to dementia, decrepitude and tumours

and in honest mirrors, the apparent dysfunctions,

slipping names, insomnia, gathering pill boxes

and out of reach, envied flirtations with perfect lips,

sloe eyes and teasing hips. Add inescapable

anxieties, dead-end jobs that pay bills,

no prizes, no awards, the country grown strange and foreign,

citizens mocking the devalued currency of art—

so, how to meet the apocalyptic hour

though faith is certain of the promised parousia?

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John Robert Lee (born c.1955) St Lucia

Source: The John Roberts Lee Facebook Page