To the Author

looking up rainbow tail pushes comet leaving stars behind like the eternal promise it brings a man and child side by side we lay on crumpling earth a smeltering furnace of a mountain looking down as chasms open erupting molten rivers roar no place to go the rainbow bends as fiery tide rises looking up in starless sky as enormous flying icy rock head on falls as we lay on the shifting ground no place to go save us Jesus words spoken and heard no longer straight on but crashes the land where volcano and splitting parched earth came for us to the left side of me and child with no place to go awoke from night vision no fear though a terrifying scene but after this still looking up