The sea-knowledge of the onetime fisherman
drained his faith and sank Peter short
of reaching Jesus as he walked the pitching sea;
kept the others frightened aboard,
entreating their Savior, yet trusting instead
a makeshift construct to keep them afloat.
But it was Jesus who lifted Peter from the brine,
subdued the storm and brought the ship to shore.
In God we trust . . . there’s no one else –
save our treacherous selves.
Everything is true and congruent to the whole
except our separateness. The one false thing
(never to be trusted) – our erroneous faith
in ourselves and who we take ourselves to be.
O child of God, the construct of the false self
is the source of an ocean of suffering.
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