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| When a woman was caught in adultery, Jesus said to her accusers, "Let him who is without sin throw the first stone." Today we don't stone people...just talk about them. |
close to regal acquiescence, she embraces all the things she knows they say about her when she's not around.
If they knew what she'd endured
they'd be less caustic, possibly
more kind, requiring level of pure
love they've never known. Few
will take the time to think it through
and realize that though she cheated,
as they put it, she'd been cheated too,
for years, out of the spark of love
she tried so hard to fan into a flame.
The names they put on her for
falling, climbing really, off of pious
pedestals they worked so long
to build, say not so much
about character of the accused
but volumes, rather, on the vicious
hearts of those who speak.
(c) Ellen Gillette, 2013
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