Hound of Heaven Hymns - d day eve 80

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d day eve 80

in town dining alone
what did they die for
the inconsequential
chatter the pained
silences of over
familiarity eighty
years ago lives
teetered agonisingly
in anxiety and
fear as they faced
the unknown the
known foe the
unforeseeable
tomorrow with
torments and
oblivion yet now
freedom allows
us to dispute
and be rude
swagger and
gossip forget
and care not
yet every life
of unremembered
living is my
neighbour and
my debt my
today this small
time economy
of self–regard
and prepossession
will never free
the world but
lure us onto the
rocks of a
hostile shore only
grace can and
will prevail