Last Rites Poem by Donal Mahoney

Last Rites



When you have
an hour to live

what matters then
is Christ in a pyx

in the vest pocket
of an old priest

called at midnight
by a nurse

who drives miles
through sleet

and finds your room
in the hospital

Sunday, January 1, 2017
Topic(s) of this poem: christian,god
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