A golden time gifted freely to savour
A time bygone and a history dear
Roots of a saint and apostle on tour
In early Christian century
Remnants of such a strong faith
Among a people with results of endurance
Across the seas and lands from a tip
To the lands that record their heritage
Presence and promise for a new awakening
The apocryphal writings come closest
To create a new canon that would honour
Those surpassed and overridden by history
The vagaries of time and twists and turns
The power to mould make and mar visibly
Deserves attention anew of neutrality
In scholarship and honest appraisal
Of Nestorianism as branding for a people
Ancient in preserving a legacy, Entire East
Instead as being heretical or schismatic
All the while deserving the merit of fathers
Who preserved faith nuanced in symbols