For M
(“It is a failing in me
And a weakness of my faith
But when God does things like this
I don’t know what he means…”
- Priest at another baby’s funeral)
Into the river then
With your fragment of shadow
And your long light
Which will not succumb
But will forever cast the shadow
Of the man that you will never now become
To be the atom in the eye
That saw the world turn once
To be the seed that waits
Eternity to grow
Somewhere is a garden
Where a tree that never leaves
Is ever bare
And where your fragment of a shadow
Never fades and never follows
But is ever there
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