Faith by Czeslaw Milosz
The word Faith means when someone sees
A dewdrop or a floating leaf, and knows
That they are, because they have to be.
And even if you dreamed, or closed your eyes
And wished, the world would still be what it was,
And the leaf would still be carried down the river.
It means that when someone’s foot is hurt
By a sharp rock, he also knows that rocks
Are there so they can hurt our feet.
Look, see the long shadow cast by the tree;
And flowers and people throw shadows on the earth:
What has no shadow has no strength to live.
source: Robert Hass (trans.) in Bly, R., et al. (eds.) (1992). The rag and bone shop of the heart: poems for men. HarperCollins, p. 275. Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004) received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980. image: www.photographyblog.com
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