Sunday, May 5, 2024

Memory Eternal and a Gift Card from Denny's - poem

 

Lawrence Hall, HSG

Mhall46184@aol.com

 

Memory Eternal and a Gift Card from Denny’s

 

for

 

William Tod Augustine Mixson

 

Saint Michael’s Orthodox Church, Beaumont

 

 “Memory Eternal”

 

A cup of coffee is a chalice in its way

It brings us all to a table of sharing

And consecrates old friendships with every sip

Blessing us at the end with an Ite of joy

 

But today there was an empty place

An empty cup, an empty plate, empty

Even the air was empty, empty and void

With a joke that wasn’t told today

 

Max found a Denny’s card among his things -

Tod treated us to breakfast once again

 

But not for the last time

 

He’ll tell us that joke at a more glorious feast

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