#96 Kevin Brophy 'The long day ahead'

Before you go to heaven

(you will, you wait and see)

you will have to pack

everything up: dreams,

walks not taken, trees

unclimbed, whole sentences

still unspoken, days un-used,

boxes and boxes of lies.

A removalist named Grace

will take it all from you with

promises of a swift delivery.

Almost at the end of infinity

your boxes will arrive

strangely battered, patched,

burst and leaking, some items

belonging to someone else,

maybe a vinyl chair of

indeterminate meaning or

a surfboard as long as

a room. You will accept

it all

and this is what will

occupy you for the rest of

that long day ahead of you.