Jonathan Bright Eyes

5.16.21

My father is a fool.
What king charges his subjects
to starve?
It is his role to supply nourishment
not deny it.

Would I have tasted the honey
if I had known?

Surely I would not have
but now that I reflect upon it,
I should have and so should
have the rest of my father’s people.

But they abide my father’s command
and became weak and in
their weakness they forsook our God.

And now I am an evildoer
for finding strength in honey
when they took strength in blood.

This was my father’s doing
and my father is a fool.