Thank God for Endings

Thank God for endings

For candy buckets stored out of sight

And rotten pumpkins buried in the garden

For zombies and witches removed from porches 

For spider webs tossed and 8-foot-tall skeletons

Folded-up and crammed into an attic.

Do the skeletons fold? Do they fit in the attic?

Well, they're gone.

I know not where.

Thank God for endings.

For saying goodbye and going home

At the end of the party or meeting or game.

Thank God for the unconscious sleep 

At the end of the day

That peels me away from words and deeds

I've believed are me but are not.

Are they folded-up? Do they fit in God's memory? 

Well, they're gone.

I know not where.

Thank God

For the end of all temporal things:

Like Halloween

All my sins,

And one day

This earth-worn life.

"For the past troubles will be forgotten

and hidden from my eyes." Isaiah 65:16c