A Sunset Sermon

In the crepuscular soothing sunset, bells tolled urging The aimless audience to attend the sermon of the new pastor. Despite their cynical sentiments, they dared not absent themselves. The look of habitual satisfaction on the pastor’s face was unmistakable. Outside light became penumbra, Still, men and women trudged towards the chapel, as the dirge-like bells faded into silence. His audience was silent too. He spoke in a sonorous voice, in an opulent resonant poetic vein an exuberant style which was to be his familiar characteristic: Unbridled jealousy is a sin, he intoned, so speak no evil, my friends.