Everett Christian

By Everett Christian

Written May 5, 2012

He sits there every evening in the back yard lawn chair.

The setting sun reflecting on the white color of his hair.

He is all alone with his memories of days that used to be.

How he married a sweet young lady and raised their children three.

Now his sweet wife has gone to Heaven, they couldn't even say goodbye.

As God took her from her easy chair to her home up in the sky.

Sixty-two years they lived together through the sun, the rain, the snow.

Their children grew up and left them then she would watch her flowers grow.

Now he sits alone in silence, but wait what's that you see?

There's a cat in a chair beside him and another just left his knee.

There are cats of every color with names they understand.

He will keep them all forever, even to the promised land.

Someday soon he will see Jesus in that land beyond the sky.

His dear wife there to meet him where people never die.

So he sits there every evening with nothing left to do.

Just a sitting and a thinking till his earthly days are through.