Junctures

“On each of my dyings shed you light and your love.”

                                                   *David Flemming, SJ

 

A glance back into the distance of childhood innocence:

--the playground

--the swing

--races

--dodgeball

--tree climbing

now blurring into oblivion.

 

A closer mile marker – innocence to experience:

-adolescence-

The rollercoaster mystery and mystique

of sensual attraction with fertile creativity

coursing in one’s veins.

 

Only to be smothered by career living

and yet the awesome miracle of child-rearing:

rough corners,

loss and laughter,

hurt and hope;

somehow survived

through open hearts,

broken then mended.

 

And now in autumn as winter approaches

--the years countdown to a handful—

watching contemporaries’ pass

into a fading history as

friends face misfortunes –

and with each fall

the reminder of the finality

of it all.

 

Yet, at each juncture

the humble petition:

 

“On each of my dyings

shed your light and your love.”

 

Kenn Storck - July 27, 2023

 

* https://www.americamagazine.org/content/all-things/david-fleming-sj-rip