Quiet Moments

 Quiet moments 


These are the quiet moments

Before the last storm breaks

This is the solemn evening

Before the air’s sucked out. 


Clouds are passing overhead untroubled

It’s an August afternoon like any other

Before the thunder shakes the ground

And lightning strikes chapel towers. 


For nothing’s safe or sacred now

No God above or Lord below

Can intervene to save a land

Overcome by climate change. 


It’s true the storm had gathered

It became our next door neighbor

So familiar that it didn’t trouble us

Except for mad and anxious types. 


Now it’s here, there’s no going back

The ice berg’s come and gone

No turning back the icy clock

Time to repent is truly spent. 


Oh give us back our time again!

We could only use it better

But our pleas fall on deaf ears

Drowned by the waves with no one here. 

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