IMPROMPTU FOR JACK

 

 

Not so much a moment

but all time,

the steady refrain

 

that “God is good”.

What is this thing called good?

 

Through all the pain

and all the joys

the theme remains –

 

a constant strain –

 

“I’ll praise my maker,

God is good”. No statements here,

a simple claim

from some deep tautological mine

 

“God is good”.

And now he’s home

with Him he served

 

the joy remains –

 

not for a moment

but for all time.

The universe proclaims

 

that God is good!

 

 

                         Malcolm Evison

                         June 2001

 

                     written for/about my father who died on my birthday in June 2001