The Good Samaritan
A Poem
He shuffled down the dusty road
And shouldering his heavy load
Through sun-baked, treeless wilderness
of shrubs and reddish loam
He made his way methodically
Down winding path from A to B
Progressing through the nothingness
Towards his distant home
He ambled up a gentle rise
The ambush caught him by surprise
A group of bandits lay in wait
And pounced upon the man
They beat him unrelentingly
They stripped him of his dignity
And left him in a sorry state
And then they turned and ran
The hopeless man lay destitute
His grim demise was absolute
But providentially, it seemed
Another man drew near
The pastor of a local church
An ace in doctrinal research
The leader of the Lord’s redeemed
In faith, without a peer
He saw the beaten gentleman
But being a quite judgmental man
He thus concluded in a trice…
