Rally

Destiny

I was born a skeptical nun

Devotion for blood

Thirst for proof

That could never be absolute

So I left

The habit draped

Over my shoulders

And wandered the desert...

Cause after cause

Cathedral, candidate,

Corpse

Standing before a

Rosary of eternity

My beating heart

And falling before

The lance

Of inherent frailty.

Calling

I can't divorce Fate.

A call to serve,

Digging past ideals

Scraping through skin

Into bone

Until the thrum of

Humanity silences

Party lines, humble pennies

And absolute Rightness

To baptize me

In Holy Choice.

Simply the want

For a better striving.

A deeper canyon

Between summerland

And unending night

May swallow all belief,

But this remains,

Black and white

Billowing around me

In tatters

Lifting an olive branch

Even as the waters rise.