Struggling with Conversion

[Joseph Didis]

Really cool poem, I'm happy you shared it. I like the idea you are trying to get across.

Struggling with Conversion

"... it is a mistake to think that God is inside of us
or inside of inanimate things."
                                — a television preacher    
I like this beginning..preachers are fun to listen to, many are so certain they are right..I don't know if it would fit, but given his certainty, it could be cool to point out the hypocrisy too.. preaching "Thou shalt have no gods before me" and then going on to praise the bible as the only truth. Or that God is not the burning bush, and yet, in there he is. I don't know, there are many places in the bible that you can read ambiguously that now only means the one trope that has been agreed upon by the church. So eager not to find a deeper meaning in anything. Still might be too much to expand the quote, you will find what works.

Some days I almost do it, turn my
Heart over to the One, to the Son,
So lonely on this Earth I pass my time,
So little on this Earth in which to place
My incapacitated faith –     might cut incapacitated? For me it made it harder to understand the first time around anyway.
Not in men, though; no, not in them.    

Yes, today, again, I almost did it,
Although I knew it must be Wrong    I agree that this line could be cut, that the idea must be wrong is well articulated in this stanza anyways.
To think of God as separate from   If you cut the previous line, it could go "thought of god.."
A flower, a tree, a song – or too High    Maybe line break after song?
To share in painful things, like this hour;     Maybe line break after things?
Yes, God must be in everything –    Yes could be Yet?

Not just in the Son, or in his church,    Might think of changing church to temple, as "my body is my temple".  Then it could be read not just in the son, not just in my body, not just in the building or organization, in everything.
Or in his father's book of fear,     It reads cool as analogy for old and new testament too, I would keep it that way.
Or in Death's sickle come to grab us,
But in our hearts and tears; in this old
Broken chair losing stuffing to the floor,    Nice to use something "insignificant" and broken to get the point across.
Like my life – in that also there is God,

If God be at all.    Cool ending



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I tried not capitalizing the first word of every line, and didn't like the way it looked.

Thanks for sharing it.