Why Are the Carrier Pigeons Gone?

Why Are the Carrier Pigeons Gone?

Casey Spinks

Why does God let species go extinct?
Does He think eternity too long for some?
Does He get bored, and at His Word
Or lack thereof, their holdings together
Become undone?
Or does He have fun with change,
Though we work to strengthen what remains
In vain, proving we
Can’t keep eternity.
Only He can,
Yet for some He does not.
And as for me?
I worry over the thought.

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Casey Spinks
Writer

Casey’s poetry has been published in Ad Fontes and Mid/South Anthology. He writes from Waco, TX, where he studies theology and teaches in the philosophy and religion departments at Baylor University.

Photography by Merve Sahin