Tell Them I Met Jesus

Tell Them I Met Jesus
© Surazeus
2024 12 07

The white cat darts through shadows of my fears 
so I follow her leap through open gate 
draped with eglantine by the country lane 
where I stop startled at demonic growl 
which swells louder than a dragon would roar 
when a horseless carriage zooms past my house. 

Three horses on the gently sloping hill 
race with the car along the winding road 
till that swift time machine puffs into air 
and vanishes from windless fields of corn, 
so I ask the raven on the tree stump 
to explicate that chariot of fire. 

Leaning against the chestnut tree, I chew 
on stalk of wheat with curiosity 
while recalling how that chariot sped 
faster than the fastest horse I saw run, 
then I remember in the Holy Book 
some strange passage my grandfather had read. 

While robed in black at podium of the truth 
my grandfather, old revered minister, 
read passage from book of Ezekiel 
describing grand Chariot of the Lord 
with four yellow-jeweled wheels spinning flames 
around sapphire bowl flashing deity. 

At clear epiphany that time machine 
I saw speed faster than the fastest horse 
is chariot of fire Ezekiel described, 
I feel electric shock of timeless truth 
that Jesus God has come to Earth again 
and drove right past my house in Idaho. 

When I hear roar from the chariot of fire 
swell again with sapphire flash of divine truth, 
I stand in middle of the country road 
and force Jesus God to stop at my house, 
then feel my heart pound with reverent awe 
when a man in a pinstripe suit steps out. 

Puffing fat cigar as he strides toward me, 
the man peers at me under black fedora, 
then presses pistol at my chest and grins, 
asking me why I obstructed his drive, 
then his girlfriend in slender yellow dress 
asks Clyde if I have apples they can eat. 

After Bonnie and Clyde eat apple pies, 
and drink hot coffee with sugar and wine, 
they give me wad of hundred dollar bills 
then speed away into the golden hills, 
yet when police ask if I saw the pair 
I tell them I met Jesus and his Bride.