Troubling Blessings
A businessman impatiently needed blessings
for long his coffins had not been bought
debt-ridden and worried he was in the shop
upset he was with every ill-ness survivor
But glimmers of hope quivered into him mind
there was a priest praying over Christian faithful
to earn instant blessings from God in for petitions
the debt-tortured trader was among early arrivals
He went to the priest for poverty healing grace
that his coffins may be bought rapidly soon
to be out of debt and imminent troubling troubles
but when other worshippers saw him, were uneasy
Why should coffin man be blessed at our expense?
whom does he want to die to offset his problems?
why should we look on as coffin man gets blessings;
blessings derived from our death and agonies?
A notorious trouble-maker stirred congregation
a good fight left over fifty dead, many maimed
coffin man had slipped away safely from the riot
demand for coffins shot up as customers lined-up
With many trouble-makers in tombs, exile, prison
The controversial blessings made the priest a hero
but coffin man was happy and a devoted faithful
wealth through tears of neighbors worried him not
“Sainthood, sainthood, let the priest be beautified;”
Coffin man could shout every night in sleep!
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