:Poem
Or she'd be running, always toward him,
           toward what seemed to lie beyond,
stepping, it seemed, from flesh to light.

He'd wake, sweating.

Hearing them singing for Jesus, he wept,
          a little, one Friday night,
when the children sang two gospel songs,

songs they knew and loved from church.



Joe Ahearn | Five Fictions
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