| *Dreams of Faith* The night air is hot on the highway. He walks slowly. The trees creek and cicada sing... The day had burned his skin; a verse sung in days past echoed in his mind: Sie zogen mit gesenktem Blick In das Philisterland zuruck. O jerum, jerum, jerum, O quae mutatio rerum! The words fell bitterly.. His home was gone. His city gone. He looked out into the moonlit road. Where would He rest? He tried to pray. Since I know nothing I am dead. The dead are lead by God. God is not dead. He could feel the insanity grow within him. There must be a Way. Something to do. .. There was a bubbling brook off the road. "I will bath." He thought... The brook was a few minutes into the woods.. The water was ice cold.. He could barely force himself into the stream.. but, it numbed his burns... He laughed: "I was the President of the United States." There was the snap of a twig. He stood and turned about.. and took a step and then another. "I am Candice" a woman spoke. She was beside a tree. "The world is a mystery." he thought. They held each other and life begain anew. + |