Noah
Noah began to build his ark
The day he saw the sun flare.
The day the light pulsed in the sky.
It took years for the heat
From that flare to reach Noah
And his fellow man.
The men and women who laughed
At him for building a boat
This far from the sea.
When the heat came
The heat dried their crops
And scorched their skin.
The heat warmed the sea
For months on end.
Then one day the clouds arrived
From the sea.
The sun disappeared.
The wind blew.
The lightning flashed
The thunder roared.
The rains came.
Hard. Relentless.
The rains lasted for
Forty days and forty nights.
The sea continued to rise
Till the sea arrived at Noah’s ark
Which was gently lifted
By the waves.
Noah and his family, safe on his ark,
Survived the flood,
While the men and women
That laughed at him
Clung to the remnants of their homes
Floating in the sea
And begged his forgiveness.
Roy W. Backes
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Roy W. Backes - Poetry 