Baptism:
What can a widowed mother do?
God gives a son only to tease?
That other something there
has taken him away from me.<\/p>\n
His place is set at table here, but usually unfilled.
His bed is made, but always now unused.
His name is called, but commonly unanswered.<\/p>\n
He has finally gone
from us.<\/p>\n
The neighbor women told me.
they had seen him there
with wild, mad, camel-vested John;
and, oh, I know he goes to certain trouble
in those Jordan waters.<\/p>\n
And then those stories
about a bird,
about a sound some called a voice!<\/p>\n
It is too much
when piled upon my heap of misery,
my store of mystery.<\/p>\n
How can it ever lead to good
when I,
when we
are left behind?
\u2014Poem by John Julian, from ##039;Eyes Have I That See##039;<\/p>\n
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