God Who?

Today's news
is incomprehensible, stupid,tragic
I found the article after
the phone call from the mother
of the daughter

my friends-both.
Can I fix her hair-for the viewing-did i know-
her daughter
is dead?
No, i didn't know
No i cannot believe
the young and beautiful teenager
silly- vain- smart
apparently happy -
could take her own life.
The reports are now in
it was an accident- most likely
Regardless by accident or on purpose
the question seems to incessantly haunt me
-Where is God?
Where?


This poem was in the obituary this morning:
In Memoriam

Rhiannon

1993-2008

Funeral Blues:

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and with muffled drum, Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Let the aeroplanes circle moaning overhead, Scribbling on the sky the message She is Dead, Put Crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves, Let the traffic policeman wear black cotton gloves.

She was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought love would last forever: I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now; put out every one, Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun, Pour away the ocean and sweep up the woods; For nothing now can ever come to any good.

- W.H. Auden