NO PLANS FOR THE UNEXPECTED

NO PLANS FOR THE UNEXPECTED

Our life is occasionally penetrated
by the painful unsuspected, unexpected
random changes in our life.

One night last week a summer home
adjacent to our own,
shattered and disappeared
from a fireplace explosion.

Of all the places it might happen
what could be more safe?

Than a family cabin
etched on the edge of a lake?

And today we found at the prairie house,

Someone shot our chickens dead,
and left them lying in the chicken shed.

For no more reason
than that explosion,
just as random, and just as unexpected.

Like the cabin,
like our lives,

Like the days
that change our lives,

There are no plans for the unexpected.