Moonlit Pathways Poem by Patti Masterman

Memorizing heaven,
Catechizing hell,
To try to keep the ghosts away-
Far from the wishing well.

Tracing moonlit pathways
Back to a place you knew,
Remembering the fateful hour
Earthly debts came due.

And heavens doorway's moving,
Farther every year,
As the lines get longer-
Though hell stays just as near.

The children’s dreams grow older,
The babies grow to men;
But what survives the break of day
Light dies in, at the end.