I will assume you have read more than five today. Thanks.

And for those of us who have not the strength for those declarations, there is always TS Eliot’s “I should have been a pair of ragged claws, scuttling across the floors of silent seas.” But there is time, up to a point, for change, “And time yet for a hundred indecisions, and for a hundred visions and revisions.”

I am always questioning. Faith, logic, and death are subjects that don’t rest well when put together in my head. Most people in the world settle on some religion to help them through the dilemmas and conflicts these three present, and they hold to the ideals of their upbringing or to others they have found along the way. They build elaborate doctrinal structures and elaborate cathedrals, which seem to anchor them to what they hope is true. Religion is important because it provides comfort in their times of need and grief. I often wish I could be so comforted.

Thanks guys. Had to edit. The opening line didn't jive with the closer. Had to make him more active.

Important for what?

The two poems preceding these comments are the best I've ever posted on poemranker. I'd forgotten them.