This document John wrote on the bleak isle
called Patmos bears a most unusual Greek
grammar; or, if you choose, it is the style
of an old, foreign man trying to speak
in words that are, to say the least, astounding
(and to those of us outside, quite confounding).
Called an apocalypse or revelation
that Christ sent to his servants---whose salvation
he died to settle (safe, too, from damnation)---
to give to them assured serenity
that, raptured, they will watch his victory
over some evil one's hegemony
upon the earth and human history.
I do not care much for the mystery
of faith. I do not think it calls to me.
I follow my own soul's philosophy.
Starward