Knight's Sonnet


Returned from holy fighting, I now look

and see what I was fighting for is naught.

Where is this God for whom such lives I took

away?  It is for God that I have fought

for ten long years, and yet I still am lost.

With Death I play a game of chess and while

I am not checked, I search at any cost.

I quest for truth and hope to end my trial.

The only beauty I can see is in

the purity of Mia, Jof, and Child.

Their safety is my mission.  I'll not win

my life from Death, but theirs I have beguiled.

At checkmate, now my life is at it's end,

pray mankind, Mia, Jof that love will mend.



Why can't I kill God within me? Why does He live on in this painful and humiliating way even though I curse Him and want to tear Him out of my heart? Why, in spite of everything, is He a baffling reality that I can't shake off? -The Knight



Elliot Winard 12-1994
elliot_winard@brown.edu