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1 Trust poem
About poems about trust
The smallest shelf on the site, and the subject is genuinely difficult: trust is invisible while it holds and only becomes describable once it has broken — which is why Betrayal has more poems in it than this does.
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What poetry can do with it is show the small, unremarkable acts that constitute it. For the other side of the same subject, see Betrayal, Marriage and Friendship.
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- Robert Frost — Neighbours, walls, and what holds between them.
- Jane Kenyon — Trust visible only in ordinary domestic detail.
- Sir Thomas Wyatt — The Tudor account of it failing.
- Christina Rossetti — Promises made carefully, and kept.
04/28/2026 14:58h
It’s like so many other things in life
to which you must say no or yes.
So you take your car to the new mechanic.
Sometimes the best thing to do is trust.
The package left with the disreputable-looking
clerk, the check gulped by the night deposit,
the envelope passed by dozens of strangers—
all show up at their intended destinations.
The theft that could have happened doesn’t.
Wind finally gets where it was going
through the snowy trees, and the river, even
when frozen, arrives at the right place.
And sometimes you sense how faithfully your life
is delivered, even though you can’t read the address.