Truth Is Subjectivity

By Peter Venable

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                    —Søren Kierkegaard, Concluding Unscientific Postscript

We peek through Hubble’s eye
or blink at quantum worlds where
bits bubble and pop, and

hang our hats: God is unscientific!
Not experimental, immeasurable,
nor logical-mathematical verifiable--

a flummox of reason. Still, do we not yearn
for that oceanic feeling when inner and outer
feel as one, raptured in wonder and awe?

Inhaling salt-spray as cold waves cleanse bare feet.
Savoring plump blackberries at trail’s edge.
Rubbing wet, lichen-splotched rocks at precipice abyss.

Tonight a gray fox steals through backyard moonlight.
We quest as our clocks tick-tock our lives away.
I conclude God, the ultimate One

is the inward truth, not fitting in
or outside a rational or relative box.
His truth plummets from

my brain to my heart where
I cling to the cross--
Truth’s paradox.

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The writer has written sacred and secular verse for many decades. He’s appeared in Ancient Paths, Prairie Messenger, The Lyric, The Anglican Theological Review, The Christian Century, The Merton Seasonal and Windhover. His Jesus Through A Poet’s Lens is available at Amazon. He is at petervenable.com and on Facebook.

Peter's other work on Foreshadow:
A Saturday's Quartet (Poetry, June 2023)