Poetry Column: September

Dr. Latayne C. Scott・09/14/22

The Choice

I come now to this tenuous juncture

Where I must choose to believe.

My breast-fed faith

Is weakening

My presumed and presumptuous tenets

Are eroding like river-run flagstone,

Sloughing off like micaIn smoky-transparent sheets

I see no end to this hurting.

I feel  no confirmation of this hope

I have clutched for these long years;

Nor do I require any giftings

As brideprice for the union

Of my faith to You.

I give You my soul:

I am not fit caretaker anyway.

Resolutely I choose to believe,

To fend off the adversary,

Even with failing strength

I choose

To trustYou.

Dr. Latayne C. Scott is the recipient of Pepperdine University’s Distinguished Christian Service Award for “Creative Christian Writing,” and is Trinity Southwest University’s Author in Residence. An ex-Mormon, she just released Under the Banner of the Mormon Code. Her faith-building online courses Map My Faith and Map My Past, along with other extensive written and recorded curriculum, are her present focus. She lives and writes in New Mexico. She maintains three websites: Latayne.com,mapmyfaith.org , and Representationalresearch.com.