Pray For Me, Yet Again---May 22, 2018

Doctor's routine examination

discovered something wrong with my lungs or heart.

Please pray:  if this is the final part

of my pilgrimage here, that Christ instill

that which keeps me closest to His Will;

nor worldly compromise or contamination

of almost a quarter century's Salvation;

that I may proceed with joyous expectation,

pressing toward the mark ahead

without hesitation

or dread.

 

Starward

 

Author's Notes/Comments: 

The last line was inspired by the Reverend Alice Goodman's announcement that her husband, the great English Poet, Geoffrey Hill, had "died . . . without pain or dread."  (Sir Geoffrey Hill, 18 June 1932 – 30 June 2016)

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