When/IF God Happens

When God happens
miracles are born into thin air
their blood vessels breathing life and love
When God happens
the miracles float aimlessly not caring who they hit or miss
when God happens the children starving beneath mountains of
green bottles reeking with guilt are forgotten.
When God happens the women and children boys and men hiding behind themselves
trying too desperately to wash the shame out of their bodies
and wondering if bleach would kill off the ghosts of the DNA that did not belong to them
are avoided.
When God happens the grandmother who always calls you a different name
will never again seem to spell YOURS
When God happens the stocks rise and if you're lucky enough to own one
then God happens to you.
When Grace is given the children who do not say it at their makeshift tables cannot be offered any more than one olive and a table spoon of wheat
when those children who hide the bones that protrude like broken sticks with cloths from the garbage or blank scrap paper that fall into their arms pray for assistance
they forget that "God helps those who help themselves"
so if you're the fat cat
stacking his dollar bills higher than anything the unwanteds could call a shelter is raised
God will happen to you.
A miracle will befall you.
When God happens,
the forgotten are lost even to his eyes.