And So It Goes

I remember my mother fighting another woman at the front door of a Baptist church

Just a flash of a memory as I wasn't very old

I may have been four or five at the time

I remember being thrown out the back door on the day I began to fight

There was no real way to win that maternal war

I was fifteen then and I had spoke my mind

There are so many more memories that I have left behind

I'm using a line from Vonnegut to title these words

For it feels as alien as what I've just read

Is there a fourth dimension for all my daily dread

I hear Sunday church bells ringing inside of my head

Will there be another hurricane this year

That familiar loud moan swirling the darkness as I lie in bed

One destroyed our coastline last year

One overran a mountain, left a lot of people dead

Russia, Iran & China, they hate what we became

A freer version of success, wealth & fame

They may bomb us one day
                                      and so it goes