Saturday, April 28, 2018

Poem on Retirement April 22, 2018


Rector Saying Goodbye
Five thousand, four hundred days abiding
as brothers/ sisters in shared sacred space
seeing into each other's souls face to face
even during three thousand times presiding.
Sunday I'll give you back keys to the door
which you'll bestow on the one following;
s/he'll then lead you in your holy offering
to the divine and neighbor in peace or war.
I'll give you back the Rector's cross I wear
given me by the Vestry of some years past
and the record books of services amassed
but I'll never give back memories we share.
I'll give a key as sign that I did find apart:
nothing in church it fits except my heart.

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