After Daniel 1
To have everything,
family, wealth, position,
youth, privilege, and
in a moment all is
lost, wiped away,
taken to exile,
the life before erased.
Given a new name,
a pagan name, implying
protection by a god
of clay and stone,
identity stripped away
to be remade with
a new reality, worldly
cosmopolitan, sophisticated,
empire-oriented, internationalist,
globalist.
Four resist, with respect.
Four resist, faithful not
to a nostalgic idea or
a memory of what was
lost, but to what they
knew in their heads and
what they knew in their hearts
to be true.
Photograph by Jose Lopez Franco via Unsplash. Used with permission.
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