We will all leave
unfinished business.
pages scattered across a desk
grit on the windowsill
where the leaves blow in
laundry at the bottom of the stairs
the fetor of old bacon seeping through the house.
With interminable patience a single white cup
endures the dripping faucet.
Your query hangs in the air.
But for a debt paid
a word spoken
a life given
fitly received.
--The Rev. Michael Knowles, poet, preacher, teacher, and cleric in the Anglican Church of Canada, from The Anglican Theological Review, Winter 2020, Volume 102, Number 1
