I believe

(Inspired by a prompt from Pádraig Ó Tuama)

I believe in breath, and sunrises,
in getting handwritten letters in the mail,
in memory and imagination.

I believe in the companionship of trees,
in crows roosting, in the sound of 
water flowing over rocks.

I believe in spring melt, abundance,
colours, texture, silence, and sweetness. 
In candlelight and darkness.

I believe in vastness. In expansive
living skies. In dense fog, shadow, and what 
I cannot see beneath my feet. In gravity.
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With absolute certainty and
absolute uncertainty, I believe
​in solace and wonder, in poetry, in God.

- Wendy Janzen