TESTIMONY OF DOUBT
Challenge my faith, clergymen
As I do, day by day
Doubting my religion
And the truth of the written word
Too closely to the edge
Falling into corruptibility
Tempted by the lovely sin
Because we would not be tempted
If the sin were not lovely and sweet
Perfumed with youth and youthfulness
Challenge your faith, clergymen
I cannot walk on water
Cure the sick or feed the starving
Spread the gift of hope to those
Who are clearly hopeless
And I have doubts that anyone
Could achieve what is impossible
I wonder whether truthfully, you need my faith
To be blind, a contract, fulfilling
Until the final sacrament
Can I not believe in doubt
Redefine my faith, into a God
That did not perform miracles
But merely gave us life
All the rest -
The living, and loving
The hardship and the joys -
All the rest
Is up to us
When step by step
We learn we must be stronger
Become our own saviours
Write our own commandments
And find a place to fit this faith
Into the modern world
And in our prayers we do not pray
Just for the fate of Christians
But for all the living world
Believers and unbelievers
That we all may be, gracefully
Living in peace, and our prayers combined
Will resonate where it resounds
This religion of concord