The Deliberate Coin Flip
The Deliberate Coin Flip
Wrote a letter to a longtime friend now dead,
asking about other side, what he could tell.
Please my friend, send me a signal if this read
and also let me know to postmark, Heaven or Hell.
Seven years passed, I received not a single word
although I thought I had got several hints.
The was this strange late night squawking bird
that beat on my new car leaving bad dents.
Finally it came, a deep voice asking me this,
why on earth are you still waiting there?
I died, we all are taken right on to heavenly bliss
you should come, leave your worries and cares.
Confused, I asked why he had not replied before
answer came back, "your letter you never sent".
Now that innocent reply my heart it deeply tore,
truly I had not known where his soul had went.
I shot back, friend the postmark you did not tell
so in my usual deliberation I flipped to see.
If tails its heaven and if heads its depths of Hell
now fate is the culprit, certainly its not me.
Now I find its always heaven and you want me to now join
And just to think, I did deliberately use my two-headed coin!
R.J. Lindley
Aug. 9th, 1982
Note- A little humor tossed in, written 7 years after my buddy had died in 1975. He would have laughed and loved it. Guy told the best jokes I've ever heard, he knew hundreds and hundreds of them. Drunker we got, the funnier it all was. If only to be young once again and also see my departed friend. Sometimes we must find a way to laugh so we don't cry.
From my private poetry journals.
Do not blame me, my muse picked this one to post. She claimed she had important people to go meet and I wasn't one of them.
If only to be young once again and also see my lost friend.
Copyright © Robert Lindley | Year Posted 2016
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