The Dead and The Living (c)
by
Michael Casey
I first saw a deceased when I was nine years old,my father said not
to worry as the dead are the same as the living,only the laughter
has left them, the sparkle has gone from their eyes, the worry has
been lifted from their shoulders, and their voice has vanished to
eternity.
In paradise the sparkle will return for it is the twinkle of the
stars, the laughter will return too for it is the morning breeze and
the turning tides are their sides shaking with laughter.
I treat the deceased with the same courtesy as I give to the living,
though I find the deceased are always more polite. My father also
had a few words to say about the living.
He said that the living are only the caretakers of the soul,yet
they think their existence is everything, that they know everything
because they experience many things with their senses.
What the living don't acknowledge is that their time is short and
when I lay their bodies to rest then their souls continue without
them, without their strong, without their weak, without their
beautiful or even ugly temporary form, to where I cannot say, only
that it is a better place.
Percy the undertaker placed the lid on the coffin, the soul was free
THE BEGINNING
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we have had one year of Covid in UK
and in USA yet again a mass shooting, totally avoidable
No Citizen should have weapons of war
It is never a right
So Tonight I offer my prayers to all victims everywhere
The poem began in Nov 1987 on the 82 bus, a Sunday I think, I wanted the Undertaker
in The Butcher The Baker and The Undertaker to be a Poet and Scholar
and the beginning of this poem
came to me, I remember KJ noting it was poetic.
So I hope it offers some comfort
wherever you are in the world with your heart broken
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