(for hour 4—last-line prompt)

 

Cleansing Night

 

Amid the eruption of the righteous

and night-lighting fires,

their anger finally stokes to overboiling.

A brick crashes through the mechanic’s window

and the traitor is pulled to the street

to pay for his sins;

not only hiding some bigot’s car

but repairing it for the dirty-dollar bribe

to release the carbon-pouting menace

back on the world.

Some triggers cannot be borne.

No matter the perpetrator’s race or creed.

Tom’s shop will hide menace no more.

His magnanimous judges allow him to watch,

allow him to repent and offer alms,

and pray for calm when the morning comes.

 

 

“And pray for calm when the morning comes.” is the last line of Problems in Annady’s Core, book 3 of the Dragons in Space Series by Sandy Lender.