"Best Believe in Miracles" by Nicholas Gordon

Best Believe in Miracles

(A poem for Hanukkah)

© by Nicholas Gordon

Best believe in miracles!

One need not be a fuelless flame,

Nor come to Earth as Jesus came,

Nor be unnatural, for we

Indeed all miracles must be,

Each of us unfathomable.

Some think we are fathomable,

Eliminating miracles,

Though that quite clearly cannot be,

Hosting, as we do, the flame,

Each on fire as dancing we

Like God's first light from darkness came.

Into life we lilting came,

Zestful, frail, unfathomable,

Amazed at everything, as we

Believed all things were miracles

Except what was – that inner flame

That must unfueled forever be,

Having lit all things that be.

Glad to come when we first came

Alight with the eternal flame,

Blessed with gifts unfathomable,

Rich in daily miracles,

Innately loving, longing, we

Embraced what seemed as real as we,

Lending life to all that be,

And all around were miracles.

Nor were we skeptics when we came,

Determined to be fathomable,

Knowing fuel accounts for flame,

Even so-called fuelless flame,

No longer needing faith as we,

Now fathoming the unfathomable,

Adult, aware, alone would be.

Even so, in love we came,

Living proof of miracles.

Like the miracle whose flame

Endured eight days, we kindled came,

Nor could be less unfathomable.

Nicolas Gordon was born in 1940 in Albany, New York. He has a bachelor’s degree in English literature from Queens College, CUNY, a master’s degree and doctorate in English and American literature from Stanford University. He began to seriously write poetry in the early 1980’s, primarily to celebrate family occasions. Visit Nicolas’s website here.