LOST…LOST…WHAT HAVE WE LOST?

LOST…LOST…WHAT HAVE WE LOST?

 

We find that our memories

Moth-eaten with holes in the lees…

      Keep slipping away

      The file is okay,

But we are misplacing the keys.

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Old hymns that we sung every week,

The tips of our tongues try to seek…

      Recombining phrases

      The voice still raises,

But soon we find we’re “up a creek”.

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It doesn’t help that our current church

Has lyrically left us in lurch….

      They know how to play

      The newer song way,

But the old stuff takes too much research.

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My wife and I may sing together

In all sorts of life’s changing weather…

       But we can’t always choose

       Which lyrics to use,

With each on a different measure.

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We need find recordings of hymns

And practice them with a few friends…

      Then teach the congregation

      Improving the situation,

Our memories will have more cues, then!

 

—Jonathan Caswell