The Unintelligible by Mason Carter

The Unintelligible

A man from Yasrab I heard
When stoned by people.
Bleeding all from head to toe,
Tortured in streets he cried:
“God! God! Forgive them
For they know not what they do.”

A man from Bethlehem I heard,
When crowned with sharp thorns,
Bleeding all from head to toe.
Nailed to the stake he cried:
“God! God! Forgive them
For they know not what they do.”

And people around the world, I saw,
In the name of those two great men,
Killed innocents all around,
Laughing at corpses and shouting:
“God! God! Forgive them not
For they were the nonbelievers.

-Mason Carter

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