The Backwater Sermons by Jay Hulme

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This is an amazing collection – I have put tabs in about a dozen of the poems but here is just one…

For a Short While

People like to write about Icarus,

but we forget that he flew,

for a short while, anyway;

and people like to write about Judas,

but we forget that he walked with God,

for a short while, anyway;

and people like to write about death,

but forget that we live,

for a short while, anyway;

and perhaps such things

are worth it, are worth

throwing it all away;

oh, what I’d give

to touch such dreams,

for a short while, anyway.