Sunrise and Evening Star and Clearest Calls

Sunrise and Evening Star and Clearest Calls

The Virgin Birth, Divinity of Christ,

Existence or the non-existence of

One God or more, no matter how spliced, sliced

Are symbols we should nurture, even love

Them if they prove as fruitful as the tree

That Jesus cursed was not.  If doctrines teach

Us our virginity and show how free

We are, they help us every one to reach

Our highest range.  Divinity is ours

If only we embrace it.  Presence in

Our souls of God existing gives us powers,

That we are with these doctrines, each one, twin.

  Deny these doctrines wholly, or their sorts,

    And we will have failed launchings and no ports.

Phillip Whidden