Thursday, May 22, 2008

The Circle

The One
can't take
the faithless
beyond this,
until they see.

The faithless
can't take
the One,
until they see
beyond this.

2 comments:

Daniel said...

This poem
could use
a world
to live in.

A world
could use
this poem
to live in.

I don't think rearranging the lines is as effective in a poetic sense when they create the same grammatical structure. If you remove the line breaks, this is more of a pithy saying about a disconnect between man and God prior to the intervention of grace.

Elanor said...

but you are getting your rhetoric down.

and after the intervention of grace, don't you think?