I Found Religion When I Was Too Old To Sin
I did not foresee my denunciation of sin.
I would always put debauchery and vice first.
I am now at the opposite extreme.
Although it happened in small steps,
my new ideology was
driven by some powerful reasons:
First signs of flagging strength,
while mounting stairs fearing the treachery of the stair
tread and risers,
having a limited ability to bend
because of the ever-closing viselike circle of aches and
pains,
the irony of trying to listen with deaf ears.
Many decades were brought to bear on increasing my
power
to go forward without disillusionment.
It’s easier now to be comfortable with the nature of
decisions;
to dance or not, talk or not, begin or not.
I can now reveal the full glory of the world of my own
free will,
offering a sympathetic turn where needed,
with equal doses of forgiveness marked for the future,
having dropped what has now become too much to carry,
coming closer to those rivers I never thought I would
cross.
A relief really.
Embracing my spiritual self
knowing better than to stretch my limits,
learning to define the realm of acceptable.
My miserable wandering coming to the end,
while sensing the presence of those waiting for me
where new boundaries exist.
Linda Imbler
Linda Imbler’s poetry collections include eleven published paperbacks: Big Questions, Little Sleep First and Second editions; Lost and Found; Red Is The Sunrise; Bus Lights; Travel Sights; Spica’s Frequency; Doubt and Truth; A Mad Dance; Twelvemonth; Viewpoints While In Rome; and a paperback version of That Fifth Element.. Soma Publishing has published her four e-book collections, The Sea’s Secret Song; Pairings, a hybrid of short fiction and poetry; That Fifth Element; and Per Quindecim. Examples of Linda’s poetry and a listing of publications can be found at lindaspoetryblog.blogspot.com