A Sweet Note In Grossness Poem by Varghese J Kuttikat

Lazarus at last finds himself seated beside Abraham,
The presiding human deity, father- figure supreme
Probably, in recognition of Lazarus' meek, unmurmuring acceptance
Of his life- long agony unrelieved in earthly hell
And, once the impossibly rich glutton graceless
Finds himself hurled down into pain and peril endless
The chasm stern between the worlds guarantees
Freedom for the elect to revel in glory extravagant
Yet the incredible happens: the condemned sufferer pleads:
‘' Would you send a messenger to my erring brothers on Earth
That they might correct their ways and escape fire and brimstone? "
See, these words he managed to utter, with an agonized, withered tongue
And that too, when his individual fate had been eternally doomed