Lawrence Hall: The Great Replacement Theory

Sunday, July 21, 2024

Lawrence Hall, HSG

My Great Replacement Theory

(or maybe just a lesser replacement theory)

Teenagers opened the doors for me at Mass

Which used to be my job, but they stepped up

And in stepping up they are replacing me

Which is good - I miss my youth but delight in theirs

A boy and a girl giggled and whispered

In a language I don’t know except that

Having once been young, I know it well -

A perfect translation was in their eyes

All languages come from Old Solar, Lewis says

And to Old Solar will someday return

We must all be replaced someday

For in Creation’s Great Dance that is a step

Teenagers opened the doors for me at Mass

And God will open another door afterward

Friday, June 3, 2022

Lawrence Hall

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The Great Replacement Theory

But of course we will all be replaced

We sit outside at dusk with single-malt and cigars

Low voices remembering the challenges we’ve faced

Our loves and losses, children, careers, and wars

Yes, of course we will all be replaced

Others will sit on this lawn and watch the stars

Perhaps in these same chairs, carelessly spaced

And ask each other: Is that Venus? Or Mars?

For you and I will return to dust, old man –

As must everyone in God’s great Plan

Lawrence Hall