This villanelle is an homage to personalism, empathy, and compassion and their essentiality to faith, works of mercy, and resisting injustice.
The kingdom came and found them all asleep
And blind to anguish flowing in the street.
The kingdom left because they would not weep.
Each dawn they'd drain their heart and bid on meat.
And auction off the door for Paraclete.
The kingdom came and found them all asleep.
When Rachel brought dead children to their feet
They closed-out half her grief as indiscreet.
The kingdom left because they would not weep.
She torched their fields and lost her life for heat
And while they whimpered over burning wheat,
The kingdom came and found them all asleep.
Had they not given what they didn't need?
Does legacy mean more than those who bleed.
The kingdom left because they would not weep.
The market shed dispute with sin's increase
And back-stabbed heaven trading death for peace
The kingdom came and found them all asleep.
The kingdom left because they would not weep
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