Reason A. Poteet Poet Imagism

What Jack Observed

He wrote of his life when he was a boy
in a book he entitled, Surprised by Joy,
before he had met the Joy of his dreams.
Who was he?  A jack of all faiths, it might seem.
 
This Jack, also known as C. S. Lewis,
chanced upon meeting - Joy Gresham, a Jewess.
He had regained his early faith in God
and she had rallied from a Marxist fraud.

When they wed, she had the dreaded  “c” word;
for four years, a forest of pain flourished.
Jack’s mom had died of cancer when he was nine;
now fifty years hence, death’s new on his mind.

After Joy died, in his book, Grief Observed,
Jack wrote of what his wife Joy had preserved
namely, a deep search for God once again.
His faith was expanded by sharing her pain.

April 17, 2021

Sponsor	Emile Pinet
Contest Name	Imagism

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