Closer

Did you feel the lurch
As the earth sped up
Giving extra juice to spin doctors
Accelerating the urgency
Of a shortened day?

Did it jar you
To watch endless footage
Of sloshing yachts in Santa Cruz
While across the sea it was people
Being churned and battered in that miserable soup?

Even as we waited
For their tragedy to lap at our shores
They came closer
By thirteen feet.

©2011 Bob Mason

Simultaneity

Do you ever wish to be God,
Making all the laws,
Claiming first cause,
Even putting time on pause?

No, you don’t really want that job, do you?
Seeing,
Feeling,
Hearing,
Smelling,
And even tasting
       . . . everything
              . . . all together
                         . . . NOW.

©2011 Bob Mason