Only Son: poem by Robert Funderburk

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Only Son 

Golden were the days 

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, and served as Staff Sargeant in the US Air Force Reserves from 1965 to 1971. His writing experience includes seventeen published novels, one a national bestseller; eighty-five poems and five short stories accepted by various literary journals; and one chapbook. He is a 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.

(April 2026 issue)