lily of the valley, image by IgorKon, on Pixabay, modified
When the Time Comes
When the time comes,
wash my hair in fresh summer rain.
Brush it from my face
and let it hang in the new shining sun.
Anoint my skin with honeysuckle dew.
Renew the chiseled grooves
that life has left.
Restore the flush
of life’s first blush.
Soothe my weary feet
that have walked so far
for so very long
with Living Water from the springs.
Wrap me in a cloak
made from soft white petals
of lily of the valley.
Let it comfort me within.
Then lay me in the arms
of Heaven’s sweet-singing angels.
Let me rest there, forever,
in His holy love.
Cynthia Pitman, author of The White Room,
Blood Orange, and Breathe (Aldrich Press,
Kelsay Books), has been published in
Amethyst Review, Ekphrastic Review,
Third Wednesday (One Sentence Poem
finalist), Saw Palm (Pushcart Prize nominee)
and others, and in Vita Brevis anthologies
Pain and Renewal, Brought to Sight & Swept
Away, What is All This Sweet Work? and
Nothing Divine Dies.
February 2025 issue
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