faith
faith
one day when I was still young i had a crisis of faith
still somewhat unaware of the reality of our mortality
in the child’s innocence that a life would last forever
despite the warning of religion and my own ignorance
a beautiful young blue eyed blond haired cousin died
it was my first actual brush with death in my short life
why did she have to die what caused her death and on
ricocheted about my head as if wasted diamond bullets
years later and all my questions and a mystery remains
as the lies and the truth lying side by side in her coffin
though innocence had held her but what of wanton evil
the darkness of the black secrets she took to her grave
as truth seeps out with time the lies have become true
buried with all her knowledge in a sadly sinking grave