Dearly beloved,
Where will I reside
when I am called to glory?
With my father’s people?
I can hardly find that country church.
With my mother’s kin?
It’s deep in a wood I’ve never seen.
Or scatter my remains?
I could find a place, I suppose.
Is my generation the first
to be so disconnected from place,
that success is measured
by how far we moved away from home?
I think I will want to be visited by you,
so best to lay myself to rest
here.
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Such a wonderful flow in this. I love the shift in form and thought in the last two stanzas – how you moved from questioning yourself, to questioning the reader, to answering yourself 💛👏
Interesting questions.
But don’t lay to rest just yet!
Wonderful conversation both between the poet and herself, and the poet and her loved ones. The end is touching and shows the connection, tying up the poem.