The Unseen Thread – A Poem on Faith, Surrender and Trusting God
Themes – Faith • Surrender • Spirituality • Trust • Love • Hope • Existential Reflection
The Unseen Thread poem is a philosophical reflection on faith, surrender, and trusting God in moments of uncertainty. Through a series of intimate questions, the poem explores whether love, hope, and the people we cherish can be entrusted to an unseen presence that binds all things together.
How much can you rely
How much can you trust
Can you let it all go
Wishing that it would come back
Fulfilled to you.
How much faith do you have
On that unseen thread, called God?
Can you stop writing your wishes down
Visiting temples, praying
Tying threads of their names.
Can you let go of the sorrow,
The pain – the last signs of them.
Can you let go off those tears
Which were your prayers
The only means of
Conversation with the unseen.
Can you put all of them
Like beads on that unseen thread
Believing he would save it from the gravity
And knowing the price of the uncertainty.
Can you still believe in that unseen
Whose voice you have never heard
And trust that he is listening
Breathing in you while you are asleep
The truest one, the fundamental one
The one people often call out to
In their last breath
The one sitting beneath each of your cells
Sitting beneath theirs,
At the very same minute
Acting like a bridge
Would you trust he would
Whisper your love into their ears?
Can you turn their names
Your wishes – your loved ones
Into his, and believe on the unseen thread.
Can you?
Can I?
Perhaps I would,
And hence, every word above
Holds a name beneath.
