Rallentanda
Wednesday, November 2, 2016
Mozart - Lacrimosa
All Souls Day
we pray for our dead
our departed families
remembered and loved
on this holy day of obligation
we pray for those
whom no one prays for
unknown
forgotten
not remembered
those souls who pass through
without leaving an imprint
unnoticed
unwanted
unloved
flotsam bobbing on the ocean
God's most precious
God's most loved
"what you do unto the least of my brethren
you do unto me"Matthew 25:40
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Wow "God's most precious"! Thank you for this inclusive embrace of a poem, catching a trace of those otherwise forgotten along with those known and loved. And thank you and for the Bible verse.
ReplyDeleteAll souls need to be prayed for. The second stanza is touching.
ReplyDelete"flotsam bobbing on the ocean
ReplyDeleteGod's most precious
God's most loved "
Indeed this is a beautiful remembrance write. Thanks for dropping by to read mine
much love...
I LOVE "God's most precious, God's most loved." So true, and so very beautiful.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! Indeed all souls deserve to be prayed for ❤️
ReplyDeleteIt is all really lovely but I think I like the last stanza the best; it touches me the most.
ReplyDeleteThe music is, of course, divine.
But the last stanza also makes me reflect on the callous behaviour of our Government who prefer these people, flotsam bobbing on the ocean, to die elsewhere. Will they, Malcolm and Tony and others, then pray for their souls once they have died?
Being a politician and a Christian are often incompatible positions.
ReplyDeleteThis caught me - convicted me - in a very surprising way. Your quote of Mt 25:40 is perfect.
ReplyDeleteLovely music and a lovely poetic prayer.
ReplyDeleteBeautifully written Rall.
ReplyDelete"flotsam bobbing on the ocean" a most poignant and haunting image, & reminds me of the baby Aylan Kurdi..."God's most precious / God's most loved" so true...
ReplyDeletebeautiful poem :) or should i call it a prayer?
ReplyDeleteBeautiful poem and prayer for lost souls
ReplyDeleteI just had to pause and listen to the divine Mozart before I even read your poem, Rall. Poor Wolfie, staring at death in the face and writing some of the sublimest music ever commited to manuscript...
ReplyDeleteHow well your poem suits the music and vice versa. Indeed, we should pause - remember, pray, identify through our sympathy all the unknown, forgotten, unloved.