Sonnet

Christ May live in your hearts through faith, then built on love.
You will have strength to grasp the breadth, height, and length.
I was thinking of all the long dreary e-mails from UK dot gov.
And then in the church another thought came like a breath.

Not ten steps from here I might be dead and buried.
And tarry here a long while.
Suddenly I knew it was alright.
It was somewhere else that my true self would be carried.
I left that church with a smile.

These certainties only last for a moment.
But they are real and true for all that.
So it is through faith that we find atonement.
And then we set out again and all goes flat.

But then I looked at my wife as her emotion was held last night.
And knew that love grows and flies ever higher like a soaring kite.

Haiku

The moment was short
But yes in it I believed
Yes there was no doubt