Anticipate Calamity

Always anticipate calamity.
When churches fall, when rivalries explode,
When ancient friendships die beside the road,
When eagles plummet earthwards helplessly,
When rocks melt, even underneath the sea,
And nothing more is seen of stars that glowed
Above us all these years, you won't be owed
An explanation, leastwise not by me.

What did you think? The smooth ride never ends?
The climate shifts won't happen? The sweet taste
Of love will linger? Bitterness has chased
All sweetness from the scene, and darkness tends
The afternoons. Calamity descends,
As we anticipated, without haste.