Gary David Johnson
VILLANELLE: LAZARUS
That which you cannot know, you must accept
That which must be, denies the need of why
Yet know just this, that even Jesus wept
A point of light, from which all glory leapt
Erupted into multiblossomed sky
That which you cannot know, you must accept
Tide-tossed primeval mites bred some who crept
Then some who fell, that grasped at fruit too high
Yet know just this, that even Jesus wept
What makes man brute, to lust on fields &