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In the Wake of Pestilence

May 26, 2023
By katlok BRONZE, Mt. Sterling, Ohio
katlok BRONZE, Mt. Sterling, Ohio
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An Angel laid down on the ground:


Its wings had helped it not, 


And what the gentle Angel found


On Earth was plague and rot--


Locked bright eyes with a mortal’s dark


It tried to turn away;


The Angel, cursed with eyes and ears, 


It heard the mortal say: 

 


“The God who made you surely knew


Of all the peoples’ sin,


But tell me, then, what did we do:


Those who are innocent?


When He had cast us from the life


We had in Eden’s green,


Did He bestow the Snake a home?


Did He make us obscene?”

 


At that the Angel closed its eyes


To all that is humane,


It begged to God up in the skies


To end the Devil’s reign.


The author's comments:

I wrote this based on a painting I did, and the painting was based on who-knows-what. Not sure what else to add. 


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