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Her Dilemma

                  An archetype, a reminder, a nagging question.                   Yet we silently sense that her Sin is our’s –                     That we would have chanced a peek, too,                     Feigned a fall to see, in hopes to glimpse –                     Having never been tested, never been trusted,                     Never been sent out into the mountains,                     Our homes blown down by Abraham’s God,                     Our brothers burned up in Almighty Fire –                     Who of you can say your eyes would not there stare                      And thus – just another pillar of salt become?                     Lot looked ahead true to his fear.                     She looked back in spite of it.                     In the garden of Good and Evil                      They stand a stark reminder of our plight.                     One solidly planted on Time’s shores,                     The other waves lapping at her briny feet.

Copyright © April 2003 Thomas Edward Wright


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