Poetry on Faith

Faith 
(from A Youthful Diary, p72) 


Because I have faith, 
I am capable of comprehending life, 
eternal and mysterious. 


Because I have faith, 
amid the ugly struggle for survival,
I can stride, maintaining purity,
through a victorious life. 


Because I have faith, 
amid humanity bound by iron chains, 
and imprisoned in the burning house, 
I can walk, in peace and tranquility,
through a life of freedom.


Because I have faith, 
I can grasp life as the reality of 
eternity, happiness, true self and purity, 
and not illusory dreams born of transient phenomena. 


Because I have faith, 
even in a society filled with contradictions and irrationality, 
I can advance boldly, confident in the 
law of cause and effect. 


Because I have faith, 
I will not be moved even in the least 
by huge waves, 
for I have boarded the great ship of 
eternity. 


Because I have faith, 
I can experience value, major good
and vital life-force
and the happiness of human revolution.