DM Babbit Poet Rhyme

Saving Grace

Should the house and all its contents be lost
 and everything pay the price of disastrous cost
I would put on my jeans and sweatshirt warm,
  clasp my dog, my companion, take my dachshund  from harm,
     (he is always with me, at my side), no lie;
 scan the room with tears blurred and choked
 pick up the picture of my love and hold it close,
  as all else goes up in embers and smoke,
find my way to the open bedroom door
 look back one last time at the memories there stored,
take the Bible, well-used and tattered from the kitchen table,
 grab the car keys near the tv stand and cable
and with one last look, myself I would depart
 for everything in my life, is always close to my heart
 and everything else can be replaced
with a brand new start of saving grace.
 


for Karen Krutsinger's contest - Seven Things

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James Horn February 8, 2019 at 7:48 AM If grace if being saved, who are you saving it for? While I did delve into many days, They were confusing and full of haze; What I need, By God be freed; Still write poems as into it gaze.