After the Martyrdom

by Scharmel Iris

They threw a stone, you threw a stone,   I threw a stone that day. Although their sharpness bruised his flesh   He had no word to say. But for the moan he did not make   To-day I make my moan; And for the stone I threw at him   My heart must bear a stone.

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