Trinity Triptych II: A Eulogy for Simon Harvey
Trinity
Triptych II: A Eulogy for Simon Harvey
Simon, our
friend[i],
Drove
their car,
Deep into
the Suffolk Countryside.
Turned it
into a Gas Chamber.
Asphyxiated
themselves.
Domine.
George,
their Father,
On reading
Simon’s Will and Testimony
Said,
On Public
Record
The
discovery Simon
Was a
Homosexual
Was worse
than the
News of
their Suicide.
nunc
Time and
Eternity Meet.
They Kiss
Hands.
Take time
for Simon.
As long, as
you need.
If George
died Intestate of Repentance of those words:
Before the
Bar of Heaven
In the
Great and Glorious Court
Our
Barrister will rise,
With our
Maternal Grandmother’s
Schofield
Reference Bible,
Open and
resting on
Blue,
purple, crimson
Fine
linen,
Wrought
cherubims thereon[ii].
Our
Barrister will,
With the
integrity of the Chapel Rule Book,
Denounce
George
Harvey.
Contest
and Challenge
Their
Candidacy for Glory.
Domine
nunc permittis[iii].
When the
trumpet shall sound, and the dead in Christ rise first[iv]
May Simon
Harvey
From their
unmarked Grave
Also rise,
with
Christ,
in Glory:
Lord
now you release.
Copyright
© Lottie E. Allen
On the
Feast of the Holy Cross
Wednesday
14 September
In the Year of our Lord Two Thousand and Twenty-Two.
[i] Simon Harvey was a
member of the Chapel Youth Group. Unable to reconcile his humanity with the
bigotry, prejudice, and homophobia of the Chapel’s strict Evangelical culture,
he committed suicide. We found out the truth about Simon’s death from a television
documentary on the “Ex Gay movement”. George Harvey had responded to the death
of his son Simon by setting up “Anglia U Turn”: a charity to cure homosexuals
(sic).
[ii] “And [Solomon]
made the veil of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought
cherubims thereon”. II Chronicles, Chapter three, Verse four. (Schofield
Reference Bible: King James Authorised Version).
[iii] “Lord, now you
release”.
[iv] I Thessalonians,
Chapter four, Verse sixteen (New Revised Standard Version).
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