There is never time for reckoning

There is never time for reckoning.
That’s what we say, words like handle and deal,
words like now and then and like
reckoning
is a checkmark on the heart like
okay I have reckoned and now it is done
like all that fuss has now calmed
and god’s rainbow hangs in the sky like
okay I have reckoned and now
never again the flood, just fire.
The promise was just words, just like
handle and deal like if you just
check it across your heart you’ll have done,
like every goddamn time won’t send the flood
all over again like if you just reckon
you’ll have done like
okay I have reckoned and now it is done.