The End Is Near
The Earth has four billion years already
Only one billion remains
Our star will expand one day
(well, over an eon)
And finally we will lose the light
Some say it’s tomorrow
Or later on today
(after tea, I hope)
Some engender crime and madness
Pray for it, vote for it in others
If we make it bad enough
The Lord will come to sort it out
After all, aren’t we right
To invoke a
God?
God might have other plans
We know God does
God gave us the notion in the first place
Of the notion
That a plan sometimes is good
But don’t program the
Spirit of the
Lord
The
Savior’s not for turning
Not for the to-do list of some kind
Of faithful
We should do well
We should do good
Is that so hard?
Evil done for good is, well,
You know
And that’s crazy thinking
More so to enact
Thomas Becket knew
Joan d’Arc, too
Listening for God
To follow through
Is mad enough
For virtue
The end is near for valorous
Much better
C L Couch
The Passion of Joan of Arc, 1928
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