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Remember the Wife of Lot!
(Genesis 19/23)
Sodom-Gomorrah, - these bad cities twin,
Were to destruction doomed for grievous sin.
The Lord would spare Lot and his family,
But bade them to look straight ahead and flee.
Thus they escaped the burning sulfur rain
And the accursed cities’ doom and bane.
The angel told Lot’s wife : “Don’t turn your neck“!
“Look straight ahead!- take heed !- do not look back“!
But curious as she was -- inquisitive,-
She did look back to watch, - and came to grief.!
And disobediences’ sad result-
A pillar she was turned into -pure salt.
She’d only wished to look upon once more
The roof and home where she her children bore,
And see one very last time her alcove
Wherein she had bestowed her passionate love.
Explorers now tap every rock and probe
To find some tatters of her damask robe;
Manipulating tackles, kits and gear
While searching carefully through every tier.
We care about the hapless wife of Lot,
Teams search in every salty water spot,
The world is puzzled at her where about,
Yet Jordan, (Moab) put our ships to rout.
New crews scan now the depth of the Dead Sea,
With tools and implements from Galilee,
Tap underwater structures with a claw;
Since Jordan stopped the search by marshal law.
Riddle inscrutable of Holy Writ!-
Wife! you keep taxing our explorers’ wit;
Surveyors probe beneath so many a mound,
But still no trace of you has yet been found.
We look for you all over - Wife of Lot!
Did you in secret worship Astheroth??
Or clung too much to your luxurious bowers
And home built by Gomorrah’s pompous towers?
Whatever it may be, our searchers fear
Dear wife you lacked a spirit pioneer,
Your daughters’ conduct with their dad perplexed,
The many so they skip the scripture’s text.
Young grunts and savvy archeologist
Brave all the trouble in the Middle-East--
As Writ commands to do, they seek Lot’s wife,
And strive to keep her memory alive.
No scorching fires now nor sulfur rain,
But archeologists, keen and urbane,
Bold researchers most skilled and so well trained,
Thus far have not their arduous goal attained.
While probing ancient scripture’s verity,
And pondering the Lord’s severity-
They labor without cease and tarry not,
And cannot wait to find the Wife of Lot.!
T'is said that Lot at times at night time prowled
Around the Pillar for a jar of salt.
His daughters therewith salted meat and fish,
And thus had wife and mother with the dish.
Ah Abraham~ so often intervened,
For all his relatives that gravely sinned,
And interceded for his sinful clan,
So very brave and merciful a man.
Could not have prayers of this relative,
Great Abraham have saved her from such grief?
We pray an angel cracked her salty shell
And took her to some haven hale and well.
However that may be I pray to God
To give a mission to the wife of Lot.
To ban from spice and salt vapidity,
And fill the cyber lanes with pungency;
Meantime we search by submarine or boat,
Remembering the hapless Wife of Lot!
May she be happy in her new abode
We pray have mercy with her gracious God!
Had Sodom and Gomorrah only seen
The signs that Jesus wrought at Chorazin,
They would have dressed in sack cloth to repent
And Sodom and Ghomorrah would still stand.*
Consider friends, salvation would depend
Upon the era man is born, the time and spot,
But man can't choose when born, nor time nor land
But leave salvation in the hands of God.
*Matthew 11- 20-24
Luke 10 13-16
© Elizabeth Dandy
