“Because I Doubt” (Poem by Nevada City Poet, Guarionex Delgado)
Because I Doubt
Because I doubt eternity
I prefer the gold of poppies
the fragility of the unique
The scarred and healed
with their calcified toughness
and no way around the pain
Though it’s not been long
I don’t remember
whether I loved you
I do but not in memory
you were someone else
and I was something else
We were not clever enough
to twist our different types
of loneliness into a single break
Or mend the past that made us
neither calm nor accepting
but pushed us along blind
Hoping in the light we saw
when it was the comfort
or living earth that called
Our names to rest our heads
against the shoulder of soil
and the only God of darkness
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“Because I Doubt” is from the book, Being Human: Poems of Resistance & Renewal, by Guarionex Delgado (Rim of Fire, Nevada City, CA, 2001).

Guarionex Delgado is a Nevada City poet, activist and co-founder of Earth Justice Ministries.