Sonnet

When Peter saw this he fell at Jesus’ knees.
And said “Go away from me, Lord, I am a sinful man”.
For his great faith given the sacred keys.
Had not everything been given by this humble man.

We who still run the race.
Let us have such humility.
Pray that we can keep up with the pace.
And despite all achieve some serenity.

We do have the faith of Peter’s preaching.
We lack the power of Paul’s teaching.
We plodders just keep going.
We can only just go on searching.

One day we will arrive at the finish breathless.
And we will be asked where was your faithfulness.

Haiku

We still run the race
We have a long way to go
To find faithfulness