April 19

National Poetry Month’s Poem-A-Day 30-Day Challenge: Day 19


AIR BAG


I am pretty sure that I believe you,

that at the moment I really need you,

you will nitrogen-burst from your cavity

in the blink of fifty milliseconds

and keep the crash from ravaging me.

Will the lesson of faith have to wait

for an accident? Something

I cannot intentionally pursue.

Or is my faith real now as I drive

peacefully along this freeway with you?