WITHOUT GUILE A poem by Tom Leonard

                                                                 WITHOUT GUILE

                                                                   by Tom Leonard

                         

                            To beguile is to deceive

                            Like some Apostolic leaders do.

                             If you wish to speak without guile,

                             Like dear Bartholomew in India did,

                            Then do so while being caring to others,

                             On some just and worthy cause,

                             Without cunning, or fear of consequence to yourself.

                             And the just will listen, while the unjust recoil.

                             You will achieve your Kingdom of Heaven,

                             While others sprawl.

                                                 BARTHOLOMEW THE APOSTLE

                                                    

                                                        DOMINICANA

We may safely surmise, then, that Jesus was speaking of Bartholomew when he uttered the words, “Here is a true Israelite, in whom there is no guile.”