Agnostic in Hospice
One by one
each brick falls.
No mason now
can fix the wall.
Here comes
another cannonball.
Nowhere now
for him to go.
A prayer can’t hurt,
he tells himself,
if someone’s
on the other side.
For years his friends
have said that’s so.
What if they’re right?
Too soon he’ll know.
Bell and Star
Let me be a star
and shine in places
darkness dwells or
let me be a bell
and ring in places
silence knells or
let me show the way
I plan to travel while
we wait together
for the final call.
What else to do but
pray with all of you.
Donal Mahoney lives in St. Louis, Missouri.
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