7 laws of goodness write
On hardened stone by given light
but torrent human froth does flow
bathing sinners who doth bestow
the tempest light into the fall
of souls engraven deep in all.
The 7th light of law be kept
from takers of seen treasures’ gold
and avaricious goals be swept
in emptied coffers’ weathered toll
The 6th to be denounced at right
in disrespect thy father’s gnaw
of youth enjoyment struck in plight
and drowned in trite familial caw
The 5th to be in herald cry
by moralist in spoken swoon
across the masses hold their light
for demagogue in anxious tune
Four have felled and three entrust
what’s left of angel human rust
but in these few kept clean and kempt
will apples soon be bit to tempt
The 4th in coupledom doth lie
To seal in rites of single pair
but flee to rivers running high
across their word to others’ share
The 3rd in consternation flee
In seeing lines that tend to bend
towards other sexes not decreed
to be indulged with lustful tread
The 2nd bathed in tar and blood
by shackles torn past civil ire
and let to roam with sharpened blades
in assembled plans to death conspire
One remains and six have fled
By willed impassioned human bred
And those that fly above these all
Will find the last to cue their gall
The 1st we find in bottom pits
of molded soils of 6 that lay
and keep themselves in crusted fit
to bar the good and keep at bay
For in this first we find enlist
the might within a trembling force
to melt the frozen hearth of six
and let inspire a virtuous course
The 1st is lit by hardest flint
Atonement fires to quell the rile
and burns away the soiled tint
of past aggrieved and current mire
For in the rue of past misdeed
Will gifts be given to those intent
on digging paths to unearth reprieve
to quell despair and naught lament.
-j.m.
