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                      Tattered

                      Published by Susan Haifleigh at October 3, 2025
                      Categories
                      • Poetry
                      • Religious
                      Tags
                      • belief
                      • faith
                      • poem
                      • resilience
                      • spirituality
                      • surrender
                      • Susan Haifleigh
                      • trust
                      A square image with a rough, textural vibe. The background is an off-white, beige material that looks like burlap or canvas. Across the bottom, dark, tattered fishing nets are stretched taut and draped over a black, mast-like structure, giving the image a feeling of wear, decay, and marine life. The overall mood is rugged, distressed, and evokes the sea. A small black owl logo is visible on the left. faith requires surrender Text: SUSAN HAIFLEIGH, TATTERED, POETRY

                      Image created on Canva

                      Faith is funny.
                      The universe says
                      “trust me”, but trust
                      doesn’t come easily
                      .

                      These days, like so many
                      things, trust is tattered,
                      under-promising, and overused.

                      Faith requires surrender —
                      the suspension of reason,
                      the embrace of what
                      cannot be named.


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                      Susan Haifleigh
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                      Susan is an architect by training, poet by design. Her writing explores the interweaving of light and dark. She has been published in the book “Story Medicine”, online and in print in “The Fahmidan Journal”, “Beyond Words Literary Magazine/Berlin”, “The Stafford Challenge Anthology,” “Women Raise Our Voices” and more. Susan won 2nd place in The Chancellor’s Prize and in the Faruq Z. Bey Award. She was selected for the first cohort of the Fahmidan Journal/UK writing mentorship and is currently working on her first full collection of poetry.

                      Find Susan on Substack, Instagram, and Facebook.

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