Keeping the Faith

How has this phrase

Never become

Pejorative?

Well-known writer

Survives battle

With rare cancer

And tells us how

Through suffering

He kept his faith.

Not in cancer,

Of course, not in

Life, life’s hunger,

No, his faith in

His faith. Leaving

Particulars

Of his aside,

It’s not as if

Faith often works

On faith, can’t let

Anyone down,

And has proven

Itself so well,

You don’t have to

Take it on faith.