Unsure, unfinished
We saw it coming But perhaps believed too well our own paltry assurances that procrastination would work just as it had so many times before we swore that time was still left the door of opportunity only half swung shut, not fully cleft to the jamb of beyond So overcome and yet, shrill, insist that this is still a warning, push back dawning realisation truth past blatant yawning maw, evidence, mourning, pour forth, refute, a flood Perhaps we still can be saved And the deniers and liars hold court, take place of the pious, the criers, who call to their Lord all cry 'we tried'