Dec 2020
Lawrence Hall
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And He Liked Really Cool Cars
For George Ebarb
Of happy memory
Who served God, his family, prisoners,
And all who were blessed in knowing him
With unfailing love and generosity
(And he liked really cool cars!)
A convention is to say that when we die
God will not ask us about the cars we drove
But we may hope and pray that in George’s case
A happy exception was made for him
Mhall46184@aol.com
https://hellopoetry.com/lawrence-hall/
poeticdrivel.blogspot.com
And He Liked Really Cool Cars
For George Ebarb
Of happy memory
Who served God, his family, prisoners,
And all who were blessed in knowing him
With unfailing love and generosity
(And he liked really cool cars!)
A convention is to say that when we die
God will not ask us about the cars we drove
But we may hope and pray that in George’s case
A happy exception was made for him
George was my mentor in prison volunteer service. I didn’t know he was a rich man, for he wore his wealthy lightly, and I didn’t know he gave much of his wealth away, for he was also rich, as Chaucer says of the Parsoun, in “hooly thought and werk.”
Written by
Lawrence Hall
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