No knock

They did what we hoped they wouldn’t.
Some believed they couldn’t.
Others that they shouldn’t.

But they did.
While we hid.
God did not forbid.

In the pouring rain.
Our house timber framed.
Waiting to be maimed.

So near.
The fear.
We could hear.

In beating hearts.
Higher frequencies.
Kept us apart.

Left us numb.
Primed to succumb.
No knock did come.