Alan Altany

POETRY

Lord Jesus Poems
No. 8

Minnesota addiction
treatment center
a long ago winter
mystical & mythic
in surviving memory,
on a chapel’s brick wall
a crucifix hanging still.
Detoxed & sickly-scared,
I saw the tortured figure,
after years of spiritual
sloth & anxious amnesia,
wondering hard & fast,
what if it is true after all,
what if this Jesus thing
is greater than my doubt,
greater than all doubting?
Can Jesus end addiction?
Empty the panic of death?
What if He is true beyond
all these circles of Hell?

Dr. Alan Altany has BA & MA degrees in Catholic Theology, and a Ph.D. in Religious Studies (University of Pittsburgh). After an academic career, he is a semi-retired professor of Comparative Religions at a small college in Florida. He writes with the steadfast support of his golden retriever, Zeke.

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