Monday, 24 April 2017

Scarlet





Beautiful and spoiled are your names,
Beautiful for all and sundries,
Beautiful in passing but not to keep,
For none desire you enough to keep,
For none saw the Gem in you,
Only the Scarlet letter of your unlawful trade,
Only Scarlet letter of your awful trade,

...Until the three,
Until the Spies of the chosen ones,
You kept alive, kept them alive?
 Yes, kindness none see in you,
For your kindness, they promised,
For your rare virtue, they promised,
They promised a scarlet rope,
They promised to spare your life,
The promised they kept for your household,

Then God wrote a better version of your story,
Then God carved a new path for you,

 You became Great-great grandma of King David,
Ancestor of Christ!


(c) Funmi Adeyemo April 2017

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