Awake

Piety is different from superstition." - Blaise Pascal

We structure and live our lives
with beliefs that make
our world go around.
We order rhythms of rituals
to accomplish the mundane
and to experience the rising
of the ineffable mystery
for which we have no understanding.
Old beliefs pass into new superstitions
derided in the marketplace
by those in-the-know.
Today, means become ends.
Tomorrow, the end of means arrives.
What we worship changes again
as we seek to placate the gods
who stir the twin demons
of fear and despair in our souls.
The sun rises ever so slowly again
creating bands of color in the east.
I awake and piously place my feet on the floor.