GOD’S REPLY 

     in memory of Mary Hope Burroughs

She had been

talking with God

for weeks

and cursing anyone 

who ventured 

to interrupt.

 

It was the only 

conversation she was 

willing to have 

at the time.

When God’s reply

finally came 

after all her waiting

it came 

like a ghost ship

in the night 

that silently took

her Soul away

to the place where 

all good pirates go.