It!

What did you mean

I’d ‘learn from it?’

I learnt so much

That my spark was lit

When all that you spoke

Was holy writ

In the early years,

In the way of it.

 

I mused, and listened

And took it in,

And sought for the path

Of the way within

‘Til I thought I’d found

Original sin -

And a box to tack

My religion in!

 

I cared so much

That my fingers bled,

My eyes ran blind

And my senses, dead!

My mind is numb

And my heart is bare �"

Just what was the ‘it’

In the ‘that’ out there?

 

David Lewis Paget