Tonight the lights are going out (c)
By Michael Casey
Tonight the lights are going out
Friend and families are leaving the stage
My parents generation are finally fading away
This week it's 25 years since my mother left us
25 years on, more and more of their friends are dying and gone
The families, the connections are going, fading into memories
The names that made up are community are disappearing
Old Mrs this, Mr Consequently, or the man that echoed goodbye three times
There are no more echoes, no more Mrs This or, the old guy with the stick
Because Time is catching up with them, and now they are all going going gone
A name is a memory, because of the welcome hello, or the sweets given
I remember the smiles 50 years ago as I collected the Tote money
Now those familiar names are nearly all gone
So once they all go, then I will reluctantly have to accept I am the older generation
For now, I pretend I am still that child of 50 years ago
Even though some even of my own age are already gone
But the parents are still here, so I can pretend I'm still that child
Even though my own children are of University age now
So I sigh, I remember all the names and all the families
That we saw at Sunday Mass, or I saw from the altar as I read the Bible lessons
for 5 years, and as an altar boy for maybe 8 years
The view from the altar, now I am sat at the back
Or watching on the Internet
The names of the five families or was it more
Are all now fading, then they will be no more
Life changes, time changes
But hopefully Faith is Eternal
So I hope, when it's my time to be carried out
And it could have been close already
But when finally when my time
Hopefully in many many years to come
That whenever it is
The friends the family of all the five families
Will be waiting for me at Heaven's Door
As I Knock, and I hope the doors open for me
Glory Be
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I heard more news tonight, and that inspired this
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