TODAY MADE NO SENSE AT ALL

A man with a gun on his side approached me today...

He didn't look as though peace was on his mind...

I have seen that look many times...

He began to speak...

I told him I don't want any trouble...

I didn't pray, I didn't run, I think he thought maybe I was the crazy one...

I waited as I looked him right in the eye...

He stood over two feet taller than me and much heavier than I...

He told me he was loaded it was almost noon...

I didn't sense I was going to die...

Then it occurred to me...

​​​​​​When would it have come to me?

Then I thought this was another close call...

It could have all gone wrong...

I didn't have anything funny to say and of all the times I could have pulled some witty out of my brain...

It was completely blank...

I looked away for a minute not sure what I was going to find...

I thought to myself, shouldn't I feel fear?

My body didn't even shake...

I thought about what I wasn't thinking about...

I turned and looked at him again...

It dawned on me just then...

All the time standing there I could of been dead...

Then on the news I got to hear of more tragedy...

Then I read about it...

Today I lived only to find out...

Today made no sense at all...

Hugs...

sparrowsong