Midway
Johnclarestokes
This past Palm Sunday
There we dwelt in pew cushioned
Diffused stained glass wonder
where even the lost felt comfort
It seemed so foreign to the Midway
in the stern austerity of the sabbath days
You were either all the way or far
out of the narrow way
no almost persuaded
no sermon read to tickle the ears
there wasn’t time for vacillation
with yellow fever, crops not yielding
cottonmouths lurking, colic gaunting
eternity was an ever present specter
right there in the splintered pew
sitting right beside you
You made peace with early on.
Midway Baptist
Union County,Florida
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