March 11, 2017

BLANKIE

Fill in the blank_______.

Did you have a security blanket, 
a toy dog, a teddy bear, that 
you had to have - if you wanted 
to go to sleep or anywhere as a kid?

I don’t know. I don’t remember.

I’ll have to ask my older sister,

because we’re the only two left

after all these years?

Then again we probably bit

our thumb nail a bit - when

our mom and dad died -

and when we lost the key

comfort people and objects

of our life - like it seemed we 
lost it all as we moved from our

last home to the nursing home?

Come to think about it,

I never thought of a Bible

or a rosary as a blankie -

and YOU too, O God.

© Andy Costello, Reflections  2017