Absolute faith

Absolute faith                                                                                                  
 
Such was the faith of Kalyan that he fetched
a lantern when told by his Master
 
it was pitch dark in the noonday sun –
a figure Meher used to show His lovers
 
the inordinate faith required to reach
the culmination, the consummation. 
 
Not only faith in His every word and deed
as the infallible Christ; not only faith
 
in His avowal that our perceived world
is without substance or menace,
 
but also the monumental faith necessary
to accept without proof that we are not
 
our limited, frightened, lifelong apparent selves
but Him – God the infinite, the omnipotent, eternal One.
 
O child, to reach God you must turn away
from every concept you ever thought was true.