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A Tale of Babel is a fairytale set in the present age about the engagement between two ill souls: an indebted lord (office worker) and orphaned maid (unemployed woman living off her father’s salary) with living parents wishing to be saints.
In the morning he woke
In the office he worked
Then he came to home
Where with her smile he’d end the day
The same way it began.
She lived in her father’s house
By his divine command,
But she made the means to come
Before he left for work
And before his day began.
With her she’d bring her knight,
An old man of right estate,
Told to guard them both
From the evils of the age
Which were not of sword or flesh,
But what the pure of heart could see.
So from Summer day commenced
A tale of love removed from sense,
Where all lived in their past
Looking forth to better days,
But try as they did to dress themselves
For the role of “Saint”
They could not hide their broken minds
Rotted beneath the paint.
Too little good at too late a time.
How the lord wished that he could could say,
‘Hell stood at the gates!’
Because Hell was far beyond!
In the city Hell was in
As scribes, bakers, citizens
Eroding the foundations.
So kingdom come may rather fall
From solid rock to sand
Inoculated was this lie,
(May those with understanding understand)
All things change through time.
But the Gates of Hell did not prevail
Though through the gates Hell came.
Between the way of lord and maid
Much the dark was passed away
When the truth of grace revealed
Things most important never change,
But will always stay.
Love—to keep or run away will spell
Eternal life or death beyond the veil.