Sunday, August 30, 2015

Dishes


Dishes

They had a set of dishes
Given them when they wed ,
With luck and happiness and wishes
By loved ones ,who to them said
They wished they’d always be happy
As the moment when,”I will,”
Was said with so much rapture
That their hearts were standing still.

The dishes tell a lovely story
Of the lives they were to live _
How they shone in all their glory
When the very frist forgive
Was whispered, and I love you truly ,
Which made things right again ,
For it was just as surely said ,
As sun comes after rain

Time as long since passed ,
Since they were first together ,
When he’d sit and ask her
If she loved him as no other –
And she was just content
With the answer in her heart ,
For she knew that it was meant
That they should never part ..

Although their lives had many scars
Like cracks upon the china ,
Their love outshone the mars ,
For it was only minor ,
If the one who’d done the wrong
Down in his heart had sorrow ,
For they never let the sun go down
Without a ,” Bright Tomorrow ,”

She’s an old lady now ,
And he is eight-two ,
The cups and saucers wonder
What the other one will do ,
Until they both are able ,
To sit at God’s own perfect table ,
Be fed by His own hand

Jan Bagwell
God Bless !
I wrote this poem about 15 years ago .It was my mother first Christmas without dad.He died a week before Thankgiving that year . My mother had been marry to my dad for over fifty years and the only time they had been apart was world war 2 . My mother had almost gave up living .I wish we all could have had Dad and mom love . They raise three God loving children . {2 boys and a girl ] . So I wrote this for my mother that Christmas . Thank you Jesus for my mother and dad and brother and sister ,there never been any better. Merry Christmas