What The Boy Saw In The Sky

There was once a boy
who never took his eyes from the sky
His teachers told him, to pay attention
His father shouted at him
told him to look forward
‘To what?’ he would ask
He could never answer him,
instead he said the boy wasn’t right
in the head

That boy became a man
Whose eyes never left the skies
They told him to pay attention
Follow the rules, and do a job
‘But why?’ he would ask with uncertainty
They only laughed
They said he wasn’t quite right,
not at all like them

But he knew what they said,
And it was they, who were not right
it was they, who should pay attention
With his eyes fixed into the skies above,
past the clouds
beyond the stars
outside the emptiness of space
he saw God upon his throne
his wrath coming to a slow boil
and the boy, who is now a man
will be the only one
to see him come for us all.

Reviews

[Patrick]

you do well with this one Jerome..to draw the reader in, to set the table and serve something not expected. Enjoyed the progression of thought and how you provoke the mind. 'who shall be able to stand?'

[Corset]

I enjoy this concept, however I do not believe that we have a "wrathful" God, but I do believe when the time comes the universe will do what is necessary to herself of the evil that now plagues her earth, however I believe it will pain her a great deal to do so, as it does a father to punish his child.

[kayla]

This really good, and definately smart :P I loved the last few lines which brought the theme home. Great poem(: