Literature
Tired
Your car sits in the sand and starved grass
of your mother’s front lawn,
its roar of high school machismo quieted.
It is just another thing you have pushed
to the edge of brokenness,
lacking the mercy to end it
or the will to fix it.
Eventually, it will give out entirely
and someone will come to tow it away,
because that’s just
easiest.
Remembering your careless step,
the toothy smile that said
you had already forgotten it,
I can only imagine
that God is a sad old man
with a receding line of wispy hair
and watery bloodshot eyes
too weary for bitterness --
He did not see this future
when He created us and said
that we were very go