request and a poem

[theprohibition.livejournal.com]

Poetry about losing faith/finding faith in God or any belief system?

and in return, a poem that I love but isn't quite relevant:
"These are easy verses" by T.H. White

These are easy verses, which anybody can write
in a minute:
So that more than two or three at a time
Leave a taste in the mouth,
But oh my God
If I could once get from my heart
What is in it
About man and madness,
Ambition and the blood of boys -

Sailor's Song, Slavko Janevski

[cantahar.livejournal.com]

Sailor's Song

I left along the distant roads, my apple tree, and now you bloom alone
my heart is my helmsman, blind yet seeking blue bays,
if I hear the wind in the evening, I forbode your ruin...
Has someone's hunger pulled you out by the roots
as I roamed alone?

When the blackbird whistles shrilly three times at dawn,
do not wait for the sun. Listen, I am still digging roads,
on a mast I carry a black flag from tavern to tavern
and hide the pain under my skull.
Oh does the blue lightning bring you a blue downfall
and do the rains lash you?

I have no more strength to come calm and tall
and to lean my forehead against the sleepy water,
from the blows to rest my hands on the rye until dawn,
and then to go nowhere...
My apple tree, the autumn is already here, there is no shore to sail to.
And so I dream of a secluded, small, and deserted harbor.

--Slavko Janevski, translated by Vasa D. Mihailovich

The More Loving One

[learned-soul.livejournal.com]

Looking up at the stars, I know quite well
That, for all they care, I can go to hell,
But on earth indifference is the least
We have to dread from man or beast.

How should we like it were stars to burn
With a passion for us we could not return?
If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one be me.

Admirer as I think I am
Of stars that do not give a damn,
I cannot, now I see them, say
I missed one terribly all day.

Were all stars to disappear or die,
I should learn to look at an empty sky
And feel its total dark sublime,
Though this might take me a little time