As I Began

As I began
so I am
my ideology intact
my fears remain a fact
the difference is
my liberated tone
from knowing proof’s
no longer asked
or needed
I’ve stepped aside
neat in my disquietude

The dishes in my rack
will last me out
a book some bread
paper and a pen
will keep me gay
from now to then

The world’s buzz
has ceased confounding
I keep my ignorance exact
beyond philosophy’s thicket
and politic’s tract
I’m tunneled in
too deep for sin
my thoughts too dark
for grace abounding

5/29/94-l/19/98

Copyright 1998 by Maurice Leiter

Posted with permission