I don’t want to die but I’m getting old

Gale Acuff

or at least my body is and won't last

too many more years much less forever

but forever I don't really need and

at Sunday School they say that forever's

not true Eternity anyway, it's

not a matter of time, Eternity

that is, but of something that goes deep or

is that deeply but when our teacher asked

Who wants to go to Heaven when they die

and get one of those brand-new bodies God\

promises every true believer I

raised my hand and asked if I couldn't just

have this one fixed as needed but she said

No like she's in charge. I'll try her next week.

Gale Acuff has had hundreds of poems published in a dozen countries and is the author of three books of poetry. He has taught university English in the US, China, and Palestine.