Sunday, January 25, 2015

January 25, 2015

PHONE CALLS    

Death,
a phone call in the night,
“He’s dead!”
The long wait is over.
The long cancer has finally choked
enough of his cells to end it all.
Now the many phone calls.
Now the many arrangements:
travel, places to stay, the undertaker,
the church, the cemetery.
Then the silence, the tears, the hugs,
a widow, their children, unable to sleep
alone in the big bed.
Maybe now is the time
to make the big phone call,
and listen to the big listening moment.
“God ……………………………………….

In memory of Jack Laffey, Sept. 10, 1996


© Andy Costello, Reflections, 2014

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