You Wonder Whether Fate Is Accidental

October 12, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is atonement, in honor of Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, which falls on October 12.

Today’s poem is about prayer with uncertain faith.

I welcome comments on my poems at http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

You wonder whether fate is accidental,

Or whether this one day a harrowed heart

Might make some difference to a willing God,

Knowing faith is not experimental.

In fact, you know quite well that you don't know

Precisely why you're here, or why today,

Perhaps most out of loyalty, you pray,

Unwilling to let long-loved labors go,

Reciting with true grace the ancient part.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/youwon.html . For more poems for Yom Kippur, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/yomkippurpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Atonement.

October 10: Yearning Is a Function of Atonement

October 11: Ye of Little Faith, You’re Welcome Here

October 12: You Wonder Whether Fate IsAccidental