The Old Commandment

Come. Come read to me.
He loved Heaney’s Open Ground.
I loved him, so I did.
I was midway through Death of a Naturalist,
there by the clotted water in the shade of the banks,
when he said I pooped myself.
Sure enough.
Changing a baby teaches genesis.
Changing an old man reveals how it ends.
It was troubles.
But I loved him, so I did.
 
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12 Responses to The Old Commandment

  1. “I loved him. So I did.” brought me to tears. The best kind.

  2. I know this – this genesis and this end. I fed, cleaned and changed my bedridden mother the last 18 mos of her life. I truly loved her, so I did.

  3. Christie says:

    “It was troubles.” :)

  4. mike graves says:

    ” Child is Father to the man”

  5. This is poignant. Real love is often composed of troubles.

  6. tim says:

    JDB- anne+i have stood on ‘holy ground’ in our home preparing our parents for their return “home”
    ….encourages us to live today fully alive and with no regrets

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