poetry
The President’s Feast
Christmas is a time of feasting and self-indulgence for the lucky and powerful. For most of the world it is a time of hardship and starvation. And so it has always been. In the Bible, the story of Belshazzar’s Feast (in the Book of Daniel) tells the tale of a King of Babylon. He feasts endlessly while foreign armies march on his capital. Warnings are ignored, Belshazzar is killed and his Empire lost to the invaders. Acting swiftly might have saved everything, but pride destroys what might have been saved. There is a lesson here for those who wish to see it.
by Roger Murphy



















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