Service Station Robbed

after the damage has been done
the sirens wailing

suggesting they are swift
suggesting they came or are coming quick
when they are wailing, are way late

it is God who is always near, always there

some atheists say, why did he not/does he not
do something

how we drop through time
as if gravity or the ground

were the floor of the second following always
and nothing were able to prevent
what is to befall us, what is inevitable

like some heavy weight metal crate
crashing down, falling to the ground

that is how it seems our world without end
overturns

those in authority forever only able
to pick up the pieces

after a crack up, after a smash up
after a crash, after gun fire


© Obediah Michael Smith, 2009
6:39 a.m. 14.11.09