Saved
By Phyllis Wax
This time
will it be an ark
or a spaceship
when God decides
to cleanse the earth?
When rising oceans
submerge the coasts
and fire, flood and wind
ravage the rest,
when wars and wickedness
are rampant, when compassion
collides with greed
who will gather their loved ones
to climb aboard—
the righteous
or the rich?
Phyllis Wax writes on a bluff overlooking Lake Michigan in Milwaukee, WI. She grew up in the Washington, D.C., area, and is distressed by what is going on there these days. Her poetry has appeared in many publications, including Writers Resist, Jerry Jazz Musician, Rise Up Review, Spillway, Peacock Journal, Gyroscope Review, Wordpeace, New Verse News, Mobius, Your Daily Poem.
Photo credit: jaci XIII via a Creative Commons license.
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