TAKING THE KEYS

 

TAKING THE KEYS


                –for D.V.P. on her 16th birthday


Watching you drive off this morning

a grandpa knows you are really

on your way home. How this journey

works, birthday girl,


                                    just like that.


You’ve been loved

since the day you were born.

That love has never wavered.

Birth is like baptism that way.


Formal entry into the world,

loved, and beloved. Belonging

to God through it all, with

the act of water crossing your forehead.


Grandma and Grandpa were there.

We are witnesses of love and beauty.


Gpa Jim

27 December 2023

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