The Healed Leper

A contagious illness regarded as being caused by sin Like a rag soiled by sewage filth, meant only to be thrown The sick suffered each moment like a fish without a fin. He did not have, even in his home, a place of his own. Pain, sadness, loneliness, anxiety, and rejection The sin stigma, like a permanent tattoo, stuck to him. Like a link broken chain, he had no social connection. Pain pierced, like a needle, each bone and vein of his limb He yearns, like a thirsty man in the desert, for healing. Who'd do this? Who is so kind? He knew that there's only one. Like a shipwrecked sailor, he cried out to Jesus, pleading Brim-filled with faith, he knew well that his battle would be won. He felt the Jesus touch as a soothing sunshine of dawn. His stigmas and decays were gone; in Christ, he was reborn.