Bronx Series: How Does God

One of a series of social commentary poems about the Bronx, NY

 

How Does God?

How does God help
When your teen son
Runs wild streets
Runs crack
Runs with guns
Runs from guns.

Where is God
When your girl
Fifteen
Births her second
Sells her body
Spends sixteen in lockup?

What does God see
When he cuts her face
Breaks her arm
Pushes her past the ledge?

God of vengeance
Of love, hate, righteousness
I hear God helps
But how?

David Eckert

 

Reviews

[Krystal Waters]

Passionate, provoking... it takes a part of self to want to get out there and find out why?? What in this world can we do? We look their way, they think we have forgotton but we write... we think we try to convey there is more to this world then Costco... there is a third world living in America and we turn a blind eye... I think God is writing through you...


Krystal