“You Can’t Take It with You”
So they say
but now God
in His? Her? Their?
holiest omnicaprice
has made a huge u-turn
in accepted charnel policy:
you can take it with you!
So pack my favourite books,
stack my desert island discs,
rack my comfortable clothes –
stash all my treasured photos,
cache all journals, poems, art –
stow the laptop, phone, kindle,
throw in all essential devices –
bag every madeleine-memory,
flag each truly resonant object,
tag everything I have loved.
But while thanking God
in His? Her? Their?
omnifickleness,
I look around
and see it all
here & now:
in this nest.
This must
surely be
heaven.
Ted Eames, 2022