He set the earthquake
– 9.3 on the Richter scale –
to hit at precisely 7:59 am.
Triggering a Tsunami
1502 times stronger than the Hiroshima bomb.
Claiming the lives of
exactly 230,508 people
(one third children),
injuring 125,000,
displacing 1.69 million,
leaving 45,752 still missing.
This act’s accuracy
leaves me no choice but to conclude:
it was a sign
of supreme intelligent design.
(Editor’s note: poet Shai Ben-Shalom, an Israeli-born biologist, examines current events in the Blacklock’s tradition each and every Sunday)
