Woo hoo! Exciting stuff! This is one of the poems I entered in this year's Mormon Lit Blitz. Made the finals, came in 4th!
It's about those times when I'm really working on one or two of my favorite sins - and it seems that just when I think I've made progress, just when I think that I've taken a big step forward, that seems to be the time I slip and lose ground. Why is that? Why does spiritual progress seem to work this way? Particularly after all I have studied and learned?
Foolish and wise
I am both virgins – foolish and wise
No sooner to take one glorious step
Than slip and spill.
How can I be
Both faithless and believing in alternating breaths
Knowing what I know?
Perfection is not required at this stage
But constancy
Might let me see the wedding feast.
