Lot's Wife
Lot’s wife,
she knew.
But how little
we learn about her.
Some say
she was named Edith, but later
she may have
taken a different name, a
different language,
in another country. Was she
sad, as they claimed,
and disobedient to turn and look?
Was she punished, as they claimed,
and became a pillar of salt?
Some say she
and the others
had seen it coming,
long before the two angels
appeared
with their warning of
catastrophe.
God would try and fail
(again).
The old methods, napalm,
mass slaughter,
would lead where
they usually led: guerrilla war,
resistance that lasts for
centuries; underground
networks
where pleasure makes its own
rules, identities are hidden and
the labyrinth of tunnels grows
ever longer and
deeper.
I leave it for you to decide. The supposed winners
write these tales.
Some say
she was part of the underground
and her disguise worked and she
vanished into history leaving
behind only a story still taken as a warning
and a truth.