Faith can be truly liberating

When unalloyed with self;

Faith is not Religion

Which sits on a pile of pelf.

Faith springs from Intelligence

Which springs from Love;

Love makes no distinctions

Between the ‘high’ and the ‘low’

Faith scoffs at fear of death,

Faith asks no favours;

Faith feels its pain with joy,

Faith never wavers

In the face of oppression

From satraps of the day;

Faith is lord of aloneness,

Faith is forever gay.

Faith sees through flesh and bone,

And knows a nothingness

Which is the universal progenitor

Of all that there is.

Faith does not shirk its work

Of making moments resplendent,

Of standing with the succourless

Whom the brutes have shunned.

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