Lamentation

It is definitely an oddity, but one I liked very much. Especially liked the last stanza.

Bit deep for me that one. Gives me a headache.

Any poem that gets "twixt" in has to be good. Seriously though, I liked it, much different than most of the stuff on here. So yeah, an oddity it is, but what a fine one.

I took an aspirin and tried again. I'm fine with being suspended between two fictions. But I'm not sure what the last line means.

In time honoured fashion, I will begin an explanation by explaining that I am reluctant to offer an explication of my own poem. ;-)

Where-by was deliberately chosen, as opposed to, say, where-in, for example. The line is deliberately ambiguous and if you are pondering what it means, good!

My hope is that you are asking yourself by what means belief is doubted, (because the poem surely doesn't tell you) and, perhaps, whether it matters by what means, since - once doubted - it will often 'banished be'.

regards
Ewan

Thanks for that Ewan. I never doubted the words were well chosen and it did cause me to ponder. Nice work. Reminds me of John Donne a bit.