What justice bides within the human mind
When some subsist while others rise above?
So marks the broader wisdom of our kind—
That one may feast while one lives hand to mouth.
In our subsistent past, by fate’s cruel course,
Some were deprived by acts of men alone;
Expropriation waged through brutal force
Set who had meat, and who was left the bone.
By Christian rule all alms were solemn grace,
The righteous swayed by love of God to give
So when they finally gazed upon His face,
All earthly trespass, He might there forgive.
The worth of charity stands ever strong—
For unto providence each soul belongs.

© Loubert S Suddaby. All Rights Reserved.