Thursday, February 14, 2013

Cosmic Closer (Lent #1)

[My Lenten Discipline sets an intention around daily prayer or poetry.  We'll see!]

I should probably know,
But I don't,
Where these stardust fastballs
Come from.

Or maybe I do know,
In some hidden cave, 
Inaccessible to my fears, my mind,
My frenzied attempts to save the world.

Should I be afraid of this--
Asteroid from the hand
Of a God I'll never understand,
Whose ways aren't my ways
(Or Wayne LaPierre's, thankfully)?

And how close is close?

Does the lights-out closer
At the back-end of the Cosmic
Bullpen have any idea where
His fastball's really going?