David C. Kopaska-Merkel
The Steadfast Heart

oh
I
worry
it's a hard
thing to abandon
the sacred if you once believed

it
is
better
to grow up
a nonbeliever
to not have had God's protection

for
I
may grip
that vision
the created world
so hard it shatters in my hands

you're
freed
to sin
any way
you can justify
this doubt requires a steadfast heart