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Am I Still The Pastor's Daughter?

February 1, 2019
By addy-whitlow BRONZE, Augusta, Kansas
addy-whitlow BRONZE, Augusta, Kansas
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Yellow bricks standing out standing tall

The crumbly old church building downtown

Stained glass windows glow purple and green

It holds one hundred years worth of memories


The crumbly old church building downtown

It’s become my second home

It holds one hundred years worth of memories

I have invested nearly a third of my life there


It’s become my second home

I am the preacher’s daughter

I have invested nearly a third of my life there

Sermons, potlucks, chores, and naps in Dad’s office


I am the preacher’s daughter

My title is fading away or maybe just changing  

Sermons, potlucks, chores, and naps in Dad’s office

Endangered by the “For Sale” sign in the grass


My title is fading away or maybe just changing

The normality of my life is slipping

Endangered by the “For Sale” sign in the grass

We are beginning a Christian experiment


The normality of my life is slipping

A rented space replaces the rock solid building

We are beginning a Christian experiment

We will see where this road takes us


A rented space replaces the rock solid building

Stained glass windows glow purple and green

We will see where this road takes us

Yellow bricks standing out standing tall


The author's comments:

This poem is a pantoum, which means that the 2nd and 4th line of a stanza are also the 1st and 3rd lines of the next stanza. 


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