My Reference Point

(With a bow to Czeslaw Milosz,
Polish poet and Nobel Laureate)

God is my reference point, my link to all,
the alpha and omega of by being,
my ground for truth, my sodium pentothal,
my feeling, hearing, tasting, sensing, seeing.
God is my hypothetical and need,
my craving, dreaming, hoping, thirst and hunger,
He is my root and branch, my fruit and seed,
my change and sameness, older self and younger.
God is my absolute, my universe,
my fear and love, my terrible awe and wonder,
my constant blessing, inescapable curse,
my spiritual light, my natural lightning, thunder.
Omnipotent God, my earthly albatross,
my gentle load, my sweet celestial cross.

                   -- by Pete Voelz           11/04