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The Absentee
John, Chapter 8, Verse 3
A woman, - thus we are by Scripture taught
Was in flagranti hanky-panky caught
And driven forward by the maddened mob,
For stoning, - for the hustlers had no job.
Let their employment status now aside
Where was the louse that'd frolicked with the bride?
The scamp got lost, - at least was not at hand,
When meted out was "righteous" punishment
He disappeared from sight, -let off the hook;-
He beat the rap and vanished like a spook!
While stoning was about to go full-swing
The louse took to the hills - vacationing.
Some figure - though not certain,-- that he was
In fresh new conquest necking in the grass;
We know that Jesus came and calmed the sob
Of the poor woman and dispersed the mob.
But scripture makes no mention of the louse,-
Where he resumed to frolick and carouse
I turn the pages,- but they tell us naught
If they the merrymaker ever caught.
I ask: - "does it take one, or two, or three
To do this thing that's called adultory?
We'll never know perhaps, but you agree
If we just dub the louse "The Absentee"?
Elizabeth Dandy
...Yes Elizabeth, I have often wondered the same.
however I rejoiced that Christ who's swift eyes
caught this injustice steped in and saved this
woman made victim and scapegoat with a daring word,
"Let those who are without sin cast the first stone"!
Perhaps we can imagine that for the sake of his soul
that the "absentee" was driven insane out of guilt
and remorse into the hills - but if not, well lets
just say that death the great equalizer has place
pillows for both until our Just God Forgives
them for their sweet avorice
and him for shameful cowardice.