REST NOT IN PEACE

REST NOT IN PEACE

Offspring, word: hatch here, take flight, grow devote
Rise of ashes in sackclothed backbone from the mud
For freedom's sake in goodness reject all that's base.

Let me not like father Abel be so casually Cain-smote
Nor see this decried word diluted in any moment's flood
But let abiding light shine out in its every true trace

As the patriarch, our father Job of holy legend wrote*
O earth, cover not thou this pain, this hope, my blood,
And let my cry have no resting place.


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28 Jan 2015 WDK - (* Book of Job 16: 18)