Iniquity And Jealousy Came To Be In One Of The Seraphim (Villanelle) Poem by Gert Strydom

(in answer to A E Housman)

God had been full of love in all of His ways
but iniquity and jealousy came to be in one of the seraphim
and still now it does affect all of our days.

At that time the sky and planets were ablaze,
while angels followed the destroying will of him.
God had been full of love in all of His ways

and still a myriad of holy beings do Him praise
but in rebellion demons target the earth rim to rim
and still now it does affect all of our days.

In their mercenary calling fallen every good thing lays,
while still the righteous sing to God hymn upon hymn.
God had been full of love in all of His ways

but savagely, beastly Lucifer did his own hellish ways upraise,
jerked the earth's foundations down, initiated evil to its brim,
and still now it does affect all of our days,

while humankind do in longing for a better life gaze
but right here with pain demons do all of life de-limb.
God had been full of love in all of His ways
and still now it does affect all of our days.

[Poet's note: "Epitaph to an army of mercenaries" by A E Housman.

I view it as important to quote this poem right here:

"Epitaph to an army of mercenaries" by A E Housman

"These, in the days when heaven was falling,
The hour when earth's foundations fled,
Followed their mercenary calling
And took their wages and are dead.

Their shoulders held the sky suspended;
They stood, and earth's foundations stay;
What God abandoned, these defended,
And saved the sum of things for pay."]