Soul Sustenance (Jamie Bonjour)

Inspired by and written from the perspective of my father.

Oh the joy of nourishing the mind

Hours upon hours of reading,

Straining to grasp even the table scraps

Of the great scholars and theologians

To catch a nugget of truth

Concealed in stuffed paragraphs

Dripping with poetry and saturated with reason,

Head pounding, I stare unblinking

decrypting the scribbles of Blaise Pascal

To define infinity while drowning in the finite,

Or stumble away from an hour

Of proving the Reason for God

Dear Wormwood receives his instructions

Still, I attempt to follow C. S. Lewis

Into a realm of Mere Christianity

And for just a moment

I see the gears, clinking and clanging

Behind this sage world

Worn and rusty but like any old machine

Built to run forever

A metronomic melody beating

Through the chaos I once believed in

As I return to the page last touched

The mundane, defeating world falls away

Bottom-shelf comprehension gives way

To cravings for soul sustenance

Each book, page, sentence

Exposing how little I actually know

Meet the Poet! Jamie Bonjour is an entrepreneur and pretzel maker by day and a poet/author by night. She's excited to see how all of that goes.