Last Wishes

by Sharon Scholl

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Please bring my shoes, he reminds me,

I’ll need them when we go home.

He must know in that secret, unspeakable

way that he won’t see home again.

He’ll leave the world from this kind place

with every comfort he could want,

nurses who tend the dying, family gathered

around his bed, even the coke he craved.

But it isn’t home.

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Sharon Scholl

Sharon Scholl is a retired college teacher who convenes a poetry critique group and maintains a website (freeprintmusic.com) of original music and poetry for small, liberal churches.  Her poetry chapbooks, Seasons, Remains, Evensong, are available via Amazon Books.  Her poems are current in Third Wednesday and The Bluebird Word.