Saturday, the First Week of Lent

Saturday, the First Week of Lent

Saturday is a marker
in the cemetery of unbelief
where nothing matters anymore
than the nothingness he is buried with
the waste of it all
wrestling with the sheets
the shroud
the shambles of the war waged daily
for a god
the void of wanting
nothing to take him past his memories
nothing to speak of a tomorrow
to drag from the vacuum of the past
to fill the vacuum of the future
empty tomb
and empty bodysoul
wandering somewhere in the netherworld
of providence or fate or destiny
waiting
it all comes down to this
not to believe
but to be believed in
that’s what it means
anymore.