Agnostic Heart

Beware the fervid call of the lark

Another day to be endured

For dawn is here, it’s no longer dark

Today I’ll pray there is a lord

Coils and drifts these flagrant thoughts

Inside this ageing globe

And Sunday school lessons long since taught

Saunter piously down the road

I stare inside this empty mug

The silence stains the air

I need some help to clear the fog

And I wonder if you’re there

Stem these tides that sail my cask

Harrowed tides of damp and gloom

This flaccid life deigns me to ask

Was I safer in the womb?

Omniscient maker, make me sane

For my agnostic heart weeps with strife

I toil and moil in these chains of pain

Shackled to the memory of what used to be my life