Seeking the Good
what if there isn’t anything beyond,
only the end and the beginning of this purgatory?
the tests go on and on,
hoops for the heart, no ultimate finish line,
always the latest monsters,
visionaries, prophets,
caught in some race.
you try to shoulder the load,
walking on steppingstones of hidden levers,
trying not to lose balance,
or fall into cycles so addictive you bleed.
maybe there never was any reward,
no god who anoints victory,
heaven itself a crumbling staircase,
which exists only for a desperate climb.
no reason, no purpose,
everything stripped away, even hope.
only then, even if you are doomed,
can you challenge the darkness,
make your statement.
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Inspired by the words of Elie Wiesel:
Behind me, I heard the same man asking:
“Where is God now?”
And I heard a voice within me answer him:
“Where is He? Here He is—He is hanging here on
this gallows. . . .”
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