When the Wheels Fall Off

What is that per yonder place

Where distant wheels and driving state

Careening corners and making pace

Doth carry loads with human fates?

A carriage low and sometimes high

Bending neath and driving by

Ignoring signs of damaged ties

When separate binds doth wave goodbye

The careless one hath not a clue

That binding wheels are letting loose

That pins secure are now reduced

To fragments of what once was used

The dangling circles begin their flight

And off the cart within the sight

Of all who'll see within the night

That which was used in great delight

Now tumbling ground doth that cart see

And bears the fruit of used to bes

As spoils from the crashing keys

Remind them of the fate of these

When wheels do fly and spoils lie

Beneath the wreckage and piled high

There's none so close within the night

As He who reigns without a sigh

And places wheels back on again

That all who will will find in Him

The one who saves from deep within

Cares the most for wheels of men