WHAT  WE  LIVE  ON 

AFTER  WE  HAVE  LIVED 

The old priest told the young woman,

“These are the men who built the

tunnels, the bridges and the highways.”

Then he added, looking around the church

hall at these old  wrinkled  weathered men,

“God only knows what they live on now.”

The young girl stood there studying

the faces - as tears slid down her face,

God only knows what she was thinking.

She was homesick. She was experiencing 
changes. She was adjusting. She was future.
God only knows what she’ll live in a new now.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2018