Precious Pernicious

A choice between two worlds;

A choice for the better obvious,

Faith over adulation,

As the precious turned pernicious.

Did she; who retreated

As the choice was best,

Give love a bad name?

Nay! She was but a phoenix,

Whose ashes relived -

A stronger burning flame.

Faith's beauty stands divine,

No sacrifice goes unseen.

His - our Lord's - are the greatest tales,

He writes of what's hidden,

Behind a thousand veils.

He avenges those who surrender,

In love's wake,

To the truth of belief,

The beauty of faith.

As the winds change course,

Howling one to change;

Threatening to un-endorse.

They scare to drown one's existence,

The acrid pools of faithless deviance,

It is but only the best in fairness,

To erase and de-script;

The tale gone adrift,

The precious ... turned pernicious.

[Composed in 2010. Part of The Godiva Expression collection]