a city so nice

they named it twice
some say and today
i read other words
that seemed to say
they saw the city
in one way or an-
other and set it
forth with words.

plus / minus
too many people
for my taste and
yet i don't even
fear it if indeed
it is babylon-esque
to a degree for like
Daniel living in
the lion's den
if i'm on a
mission
from
Him
and
it's
not time
to go yet,
i will be okay;

in the eye of a hurricane, then outside, swirling
in midst of a blast of the atom smashed into power
on a grand scale
on the coast with a tsunami heading to land, towering
over the cliffs of Dover even
in the worst of shakespeare's tragedies
in Cleveland, with the lights out and the river on fire

w/faith the mountains
will do our will, made
of matter on a molecular
level - beyond? - we
cannot see (yet)
eternity, away
from the time
line sequenti
-ally re-
ally? re
-introducing
valleys of the
shadow of death
lingering in the
corner.