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TITLE: The Treasure that Betrays | Previous Challenge Entry
By Melanie Kerr
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Such treasure would be missed
A robe, some coins, a bar of gold
A prize hard to resist
That day I chose to rescue them
From biting burning flame
A robe, some coins, a bar of gold
I stole and felt no shame
Too many years with empty purse
I claimed my own reward
A robe, some coins, a bar of gold
A small but precious hoard
With slick, sly stealth I hid my prize
Beneath the dusty ground
A robe, some coins, a bar of gold
In stroking, pleasure found
The things we hide from kith and kin
From God are not concealed
A robe, some coins, a bar of gold
Were soon to be revealed
The sons of Ai so puny, small
Our victory surely won
A robe, some coins, a bar of gold
Our triumph had undone
Joshua fell with saddened heart
To hear Jehovah speak
“A robe, some coins, a bar of gold
This stolen treasure seek”
As tribes and clans and families
We passed before God’s eye
A robe, some coins, a bar of gold
Revealed - the thief was I
At once I knew but far too late
Just where true treasure lay
A robe, some coins, a bar of gold
Would one day rust, decay
My wife, my children, thirty men
True treasure soundly spurned
A robe, some coins, a bar of gold
For tawdry trinkets burned
We see, we take, we do not think
Where selfish actions end
A robe, some coins, a bar of gold
To Hades’ flames can send
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