Only Son

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A Poem by Robert Funderburk

For the first time

Another voice than mine

Sang you to sleep

To a longer night

Than we have known

Golden were the years

That shine still with your smile

And your laughter flows 

Through this temporal midnight

Of my earthbound soul

Gethsemane is dark and yet

I wait with joy, my son

For we shall rest together 

In the healing light of Jesus

Near the heartbeat of God

Robert Funderburk was born by coal oil lamplight in his home near Liberty, Mississippi, graduated from Louisiana State University in 1965, served as SSgt in USAFR from 1965 - 1971. Writing experience includes seventeen published novels, one a national bestseller; over one hundred poems and six short stories accepted by various literary journals; one Chapbook; 2023 Pushcart Prize nominee. Along with his wife Barbara, Robert lives and writes from the peace of their home on fifty acres of wilderness in Olive Branch, Louisiana.