John Mole
The Rapture
(for Eamon Duffy)
The manic cat claws up its wall of glass,
all grin, where once a dumb dog
nodded. So the expected comes to pass -
Alpha and Omega, Gog and Magog
nose to tail along the highway
stepping on it westward. Jesus,
give me out! There’s no abiding stay
for the fresh-packed kids on this bus.
Oh Lord, the hairs of each innocent head
are numbered, such a quantity
of love, the sum of it, a downy, tousled
congregation. The pity, Lord, the pity ....
So take me now amidst their laughter
as the dove descends, its wings
aflame with gasoline, become the rapture
of your servant risen beyond all things
locked here in this endlessness
of driving headlong nowhere
never to be born again. But bless
each child. It was trusted to my care.
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