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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