The Old Commandment
Come. Come read to me.
He loved Heaney’s Open Ground.
I loved him, so I did.
I was midway through Death of a Naturalist,
there by the clotted water in the shade of the banks,
when he said I pooped myself.
Sure enough.
Changing a baby teaches genesis.
Changing an old man reveals how it ends.
It was troubles.
But I loved him, so I did.
“I loved him. So I did.” brought me to tears. The best kind.
Thank you, Heather.
I know this – this genesis and this end. I fed, cleaned and changed my bedridden mother the last 18 mos of her life. I truly loved her, so I did.
Patricia, well done…well done.
“It was troubles.” 🙂
Christie, it really was.
” Child is Father to the man”
Very true, Mike…very true.
This is poignant. Real love is often composed of troubles.
Thanks, Melinda.
JDB- anne+i have stood on ‘holy ground’ in our home preparing our parents for their return “home”
….encourages us to live today fully alive and with no regrets
Tim, its the only way to live.