In the Midst of Life

FAITH

I need no assurances – I am a man who is pre-occupied of his own soul;

I do not doubt that whatever I know at a given time, there waits for me more which I do not know.

I do not doubt but the majesty and beauty of the world is latent in any iota of the world;

I do not doubt there are realizations I have no idea of, waiting for me through time and through the universes – also upon this earth;

I do not doubt I am limitless, and that the universes are limitless – in vain I try to think how limitless;

Did you think Life was so well provided for, and Death, the purport of all Life, is not well provided for?

… to die is different from what anyone supposed…

— Fragments from Faith Poem and Song of Myself by Walt Whitman