“The Lord helps them and delivers them; he delivers them from the wicked and saves them, because they take refuge in him.”

The sky is falling,

horizon on fire,

all that can be shaken

is rattling at a higher frenzy

since these forty days began–

span of the rainfall

over the floating menagerie,

of the desert waiting

with the wild beasts,

of the unknown fate

on the terrible mountain.

When Lent has spent

its seeping sorrow and I

am lost with help long overdue,

I calm myself and

once again choose You.