Fleeting Serpent

by Chris Williams

When all is madness
The tail entwines
Fear and sadness
Barbed hearts and minds

But drawn curtain no shelter
As light rends the sky
To serpent uncurling
Fleeing my mind

For fear of the herald
With tremoring crash
Announcing the presence:
God present, future, and past!


thunder and lightning
(said not the other way 'round?)
thunder and lightning
laughter in a storm