Taking Your Word for it

Taking Your Word for it                                                                                 
 
Here I am engaged again in proving
the poverty of myself; the paucity of my faith.
 
Issued from a cramped hand
and the fist of a heart, these poems
 
shaped by contrariness and preference, habit and fear.
Audacious references, ignorant and wistful,
 
are made to love, taking Your Word for it.    
Taking Your Word for it, finding no real proof
 
among the worldly shadow-shapes
nor the chronic aridity of my own domain.
 
O child, throw down your walking cane
that you might grip more tightly the Godman’s hand.