Eternal Peace When Needed
“What are you going to do?” he asked.
His charm had been slipping more lately.
He was a lizard beneath it. She gasped.
There was something wrong with him lately.
Something thin. An essential shallowness.
How had she not noticed it before?
When he touched her he was callus.
She grew cold to her very core.
She had to extract herself from this.
There was hatred deep in his breast.
She didn’t know how? It was a risk.
She had to be sure, not a guess.
At first he was charming, loving, & kind.
He left her in a dream state a lot.
Gradually, he changed she did find.
Slowly, more possessive he got.
He was like an animal when uncaged
You never knew what he would do.
She began to fear his potential rage.
He was similar to an animal in a zoo.
“I have a Dr’s appointment”, she said.
It was a lie to distract him for awhile.
She left, shaking inside, holding her head.
“See you later” he said with a smile.
This man was psychotic. She could feel it.
She had to do something or be killed.
she was cracking up with the fear of it.
Can’t it all go away if she willed?
She went to church and she prayed.
Poured out all her fears to the Lord.
“Help me Lord before I’m slayed
by this psychopath I abhor.”
An eternal peace came over her.
A voice said: “It’s been resolved my child.”
She left the church feeling sure.
All would be taken care of in awhile.
When she got home she turned on the TV.
The news said He had been arrested.
A serial killer of women was he.
He surrendered & never protested.
“Thank you.—- Thank you Lord!!”
She wept as she fell to her knees.
She couldn’t help but wonder,
what would he have done to me?
Without God’s help, a certain blunder,
it would have been for me to see.
———————————————–R. W. Johnson—–(2013)
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