Doubt

What am I doing and why am I doing it?

A bit late to be considering such questions

Don’t you think?

Perhaps

But, “For want of a nail, etc, etc.”

It seems there are many ways to get

From alpha to omega.

I hope I have considered them all

And judged them fairly.

But right now

I’m having a “Pontius Pilate” moment,

Doubting my judgement

While washing my hands.

This thing is almost set in motion

Ready to roll of its own accord,

A triumph or disaster depending on a breath

Blowing this way or that.

Have I brought it on myself?

Or been driven to it before a whip?

At this point either one will do,

It makes little difference,

But I’m here regardless.

I am Thomas searching out the wounds

To extinguish that ember of doubt

That will not go away.

There are chains that have kept me earthbound:

First despair and then doubt.

Despair, it seems is our common lot.

It is not pride that goeth before a fall.

It is doubt.

Doubt is the great leveler.

Doubt is the father of all might-have-beens.

It follows me everywhere I go

And gives me little sleep.

But around one more corner,

Over the next hill,

Beyond the far horizon,

I may have just given it the slip.

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