Day of Darkness

Even concrete cracked away… nothing stood secure…

Crackling thunder lit the sky… that should’ve been day… but wasn’t.

Hippity hop the rabbit scurried… before falling into an opening hole…

That also swallowed cars and people… screaming for help and answers.

It was too late to ask questions… It was way past that time…

Long ago we should’ve heeded God’s wishes…

But we took one more day… to play the same way…

And now God’s wrath was upon us.

Rats ran for their lives… they were the great survivors…

But even rats and cockroaches sensed this ominous threat.

While the insect world could never understand, “Why?”

They sensed God was near… and He was angry.

Rivers flowed way past their banks…

Where skyscrapers had been… were now shambles…

Streets flooded with raging white waters….

Urban streets now looked like Venice’s canals.

At first people screeched, “What?” When they tried to understand…

Next they cried, “Why?” When they sensed they’d brought this on.

Then, “We’re sorry, we’ll do better.”

Admitting what they’d known all along… that they’d chosen…

To abandon their pact with God… to have fun.

Rats ran for their lives… they were the great survivors…

But even rats and cockroaches sensed this ominous threat.

While the insect world could never understand, “Why?”

They sensed God was near… and He was angry.

A cute little girl clung to some plywood as it was swept along…

Ten feet below were train tracks. Her mother grasped her to save her…

Her father was frozen like a child… He followed his wife & clung to the wood.

Only mom was saving their daughter… The family rode through turbulence…

The mom cried out, “I love you my dear… God is near… You must not have fear.”

The father cried, “What should we do? What should we do?”

As they sailed under a bridge, it began to collapse…

A steel girder guillotined through… the father was gone…

The mother and child were saved… the board came to the other bank…

They got off and ran for shelter… but where was there any safe place?

God claimed all who abandoned His spiritual & moral ways.

Rats ran for their lives… they were the great survivors…

But even rats and cockroaches sensed this ominous threat.

While the insect world could never understand, “Why?”

They sensed God was near… and He was angry.

Humans wrentched free from collapsed cities…

And flooded plains… they climbed to higher ground…

Were the survivors hand chosen by Hashem… to live on…

All looked upon fellow survivors as… “Chosen ones…”

Was the clock turned back to the beginning?

Or, was it turned forward to the final days & the Messiah?

Were we beginning or ending? Punished or rewarded?

People cherished each other… and being alive.

This was a new day… What did God want from us?

Rats ran for their lives… they were the great survivors…

But even rats and cockroaches sensed this ominous threat.

While the insect world could never understand, “Why?”

They sensed God was near… and He was angry.