a ghazal variation

[joel]

And I believe in body, spirit, soul like faith, like hope, like love.
Like faith, like hope, like love: true virtues roll like faith, like hope, like love.

In unity, but there I fill my role diverse as welfare’s aid.
Where spirit flows enfleshed, good heavens dole like faith, like hope, like love.

Not prison bodies – no, not shipwreck shoals appears the human form.
Of tortured spirits, fleshed is spirits’ goal like faith, like hope, like love.

Your disembodied spirit pays a toll, which strains its windy breath.
And like expired corpses, life is null like faith, like hope, like love.

And void of life, like anthracitic coal, I might my value hold.
My death addresses fill dirt in a hole like faith, like hope, like love.

Of sheol’s pit, a shadowed figure stole my former paradise.
O Jacob hear, the LORD your God is sole like faith, like hope, like love.

Attempts for Wisdom’s truths revealed a soul to questions free of truth.
Alive and wise, the best of life is whole like faith, like hope, like love.