Christopher Flaherty Poet Free verse

In the End Before

Yesterday it rained

I went out without an umbrella 

Because I didn't check the weather 

And you know what happened

Shock horror 

I got wet 

What on earth did I expect 

I've no one else but myself to blame

Unless I somehow thought since
it had rained last

A new type of dry rain had been invented
overnight whilst I was soundly asleep
and dreaming fast

But in reality surely when you awaken
in the morning and open your eyes

You should be wide awake and stop
dreaming and leave them in the past

And so too then take an umbrella out
with you when there is the slightest
possibility it may well be raining

Unless you choose or wish to get wet
or believe

The rules and laws of nature can be
somehow be undone or changed
simply overnight 

And you don't then expect to be met either 

With the possibility of God to have
revealed whoever they may be as well

And whether or not you have done that
what he required as the basics necessary 

In order to fall under his umbrella 

Or are left out in the cold and rain 
to suffer

Much like you yourself did to so many
others

With no one else but yourself to blame

Left at that point thinking and eventually
realizing upon reflection 

What on earth did I expect 

In the end we all get what is coming 
to us

And we receive our just desserts for what
we have put in

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