poem Faith Comes Only, a poem of how religious people are not really religious and how they count on God when they have nothing else to rely on By Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

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live at the Cafe in Chicago 08/18/09

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Floating Away with the Tide”, “Faith Comes Only”, “How You Know When You’re the Wrong Height”, “Our Couple in Love”, “Exhaling”, “Menu Poem”, “Translation”, “More Believable That Way”, and “All I Can Capture” from the the Scars Publi cations 2010 poetry book “She’s an Open Book” 6/5/20 as a prequel to the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted and shared on a Facebook event page (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Floating Away with the Tide”, “Faith Comes Only”, “How You Know When You’re the Wrong Height”, “Our Couple in Love”, “Exhaling”, “Menu Poem”, “Translation”, “More Believable That Way”, and “All I Can Capture” from the the Scars Publi cations 2010 poetry book “She’s an Open Book” 6/5/20 as a prequel to the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted and shared on a Facebook event page (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).

Faith Comes Only
08/17/09
You made your choice
and I went home,
all by myself
and you went home with your faith
I hope your faith
keeps you warm at night
I realized something
your faith
comes only
when you have nothing
concrete
to hold on to
nothing
to rely on
nothing
concrete
apparently you only have faith
when you have nothing else

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