on Trust

Trust is warmth

Trust is noble

Trust is confidence

Trust is certitude

Trust is strong, like a rock.

But, trust is fragile, trust is fickle, trust is fleeting.

Like a delicate flower it's stark beauty

doomed to a short future and a violent demise.

Trust is founded on the combined will of the multitude,following in those of countless weary travelers of journeys past

Sojourners yearning for hope and peace, food and shelter, rest for a weary soul.

Trust reigns over the acts of great nations

and the distorted faith of the suicide bomber

The strongest trust exists between lovers,

trusting in each other to give and receive,

to sooth and be soothed, to excite and become excited,

never to end.

But end it does, in anger and betrayal and in hardened hearts

in words that should not be spoken and thoughts that ought not be shared.

Hearts hardened by scars remain wounded.

And yet, we trust again

hoping to find the way,

yearning for strength, nobility and truth,

and peace.

And eventually we look up to a magnificent sky, a panoply of peace and wonder

of hope and beauty,

and in that dark time when we see only weakness, the only things we see are cowardice,

weakness and fear, when we are consumed by doubt,

We look up and see truth and we realize that,

In God we Trust.