ALL  SOULS  DAY 

  

        All Souls Day:

        prayers sinking from our hearts

        down deep into the graves

        of our dead beneath our feet

        or in the cemeteries in our hearts,

        prayers for those we talked

        at table with,

        prayers for those we walked

        these streets with,

        prayers for all those

        who have gone before us.

        Amen. Come Lord Jesus!

        Come Lord of the Living

        and not of the dead,

        because our creed is:

        we believe down deep

        you have risen from the grave. Alleluia.

·      Andrew Costello

(© Markings  Prayer for November 2000)