Sunday, August 31, 2025

The Least Of These

The Least Of These

 

"Whatever ye have done to the least of these ye have done unto me"

See the proud man beseeching upon his knee

Before the Lord, the Lamb of God

The God whom he deplored

The businessman looks into the eyes of those he ignored

The half starving homeless vagrants he passed on the way to the office

Where he lived a life of opulence and bliss

The rich man who lived life without a care

Never even approaching God in prayer

He mocked religion as a foolish myth

As evidence cable TV preachers obviously full of it

Besides Loving your fellow man

Would then necessitate conceiving some plan

Certainly to love the masses and then to do nil

Would be a clear violation of God's will

So life digresses into living it up with whores and cocaine

And passing idle time pretending it all isn't in vain

Vehemently protesting any notion of morality

Looking upon suckers who care with a loathing of fatality

All the while like a mouse nibbling on the wedge of cheese

The abstract notion entailing "The least of these"

So you make your martini doubly dry

And every feeling of from the heart you crucify

Behind the dark tinted glass of your limousine

Others perceive that you are living the high life of the dream

Then why is every thought in your mind vulgar and obscene?

You have learned to be comfortably numb

You have won every test but you have never overcome

And so the mogul approaches the Lord on Judgment Day

He tries to speak without a single word he can say

Never come before the Lord of Lords with any empty hand

Bring him jewels of compassion that is what he does demand

For if the God of the universe is the one you seek to please

May I suggest passing the test

That you do you very, very best

To give comfort and aid to "The Least of These" 


POLISHED FRAGMENTS

Poet To The Poor


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