Wednesday, January 03, 2007

Gums wrapped up in red lily lips (nursing home)

"As you enter this life
I pray you depart
With a wrinkled face
And a brand new heart"
-U2 from Love and peace or Else


Gums wrapped up in red lily lips
Tongues, exposed, tumbling about

Wistful dialogical intercourse,
Leaned on walkers

Death, waiting;
Death, waited for

Abandonment, desolation
Visitation, hope

The inhabitants reminded of youth
The visitors enlightened to vincibility

Silent sermons; shouted
Hospitality scorned

Dementia, embraced
Life, envied; life-sucking

Life embraced, joy sustained
Tenderness…grace

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Matt, I just want to encourage you. The tenderness of your thought is wonderful to witness in an up-and-coming pastor (I hope). The Spirit is with you - eternally encouraging. You are starting to breathe with those heaven gills already.