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Reaching
They told us in school that God
Isn’t dead, but it still feels like we’re
Passing along His memory.
No one likes to talk about corpses.
What guilt for those still living, I mean
We’re free!
in this time with these bodies;
So when we have to, we dress it up
Into the most acceptable opinion.
He would have wanted you to be happy.
You know how he was.
Or worse. There’s the gray old relative, guilting us into
Going to church to stare at the
Body
With all the other bodies who have to
Find something nice to say, or else even from death he’ll
Give you hell; I mean
You know how he was.
Some fear takes up permanent residence.
The worst is when
They expect you to touch the dead man.
Just reach out your hand and
Find something nice to say and
Remind yourself that he can’t get you from there.
I mean
He would’ve wanted you to just
Be
Happy.
Praying
That He won’t reach back.
Some fear takes up permanent residence.
I know this
Like I know that we’re all reaching for something
For another moment of happy or for something nice to say
Or for another day
Hour
Morning
Without the
Fear.
I know this
Because for fifteen years I’ve reached my hands out
And waited to be filled.
Death can’t be cured by
Death.
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