David Walker Poet Rhyme

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The Writing On Wall Calendar of Eternity

The Writing on Wall Calendar of Eternity
David J Walker

Do the dearly departed keep track 
Of the days since being 
Laid away to rest in a grave
Forever?

Are there spirit calendars on Golden walls
Marked with x’s by disembodied fingers
as if they were dying 
for a weekend to come?

My father-in-law, 
who left just us a week ago
May have run into my father who 
Has been gone for 36 years 

But I don’t know 
why time would mean 
a single thing in eternity 

It’s not just the bell that tolls 
The clock ticks off its tocks
For thee,
           And me

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