Time: Critical

Time: Critical

Too late now.

Charge the phone,

lower the blinds,

Papers,

passport,

keys.

Backpack open,

stuff it quickly,

grab coat. 

Shots, shouts,

running feet,

sirens. 

Who knows

what else 

is out there?

Martial law

comes next.

Flip the bolt lock,

Last look. Phone.

Knife. Out the back. 

Luck is all

that’s left.

                        --Sef,  5/24/‘17