Tag: funeral

• missing you

  

  I missed you today, it wasn’t anything special, like feeling you in the room, I tripped over the rip in the carpet. Do you remember? You dragged the dining table across the room for Christmas dinner, your mother was staying and when I shouted at you, she came to your defence and I ran out…

  Susan Gallagher

  19 Dec 2020

  Story – fiction

  death, funeral, husband, removal, spouse, wake

• Witness to the Spirit

  A community gathered A family mourned A man stood erect Whilst another went under A woman spoke A people heard They “ahhed” and they “oohed” The priest was moved The gifts were brought And in the midst A clear voice sang… “I am no longer mine own But I belong to Thee No longer to…

  Susan Gallagher

  2 Feb 2020

  Poetic

  church, community, funeral