Friday Evening Mending through “Heavenly, Heavenly Music”
Please tell me, Charles, what duties or what rites
You want fulfilled while you are there beyond
The living. Would the Sabbath candles’ lights
On tables at the Gate enable fond
Announcements from the grave or serve to send
My thoughts and pain to you? Would breaking of
The bread at Love Feasts loosen up or bend
The laws of death so we could rub our love
Against each other, dead and living man?
Would gospel songs that Benji taught us serve
To make connections, come on swifts’ wings, fan
Across the gulf, and make death’s starkness swerve?
..Come hummingbirds of heaven, raptor’s plumes
….From hell, if we can love afresh like grooms.