What If I Told You?

The last will be first and the first will be last. Mathew 20:16

What if I told you
The world might be saved by
A couple of fools?

What if I told you
I love the sound of shrieks
Breaking the silence?

What if I told you
The world looks lovely
When flooded with rain?

What if I told you
The forests look splendid
When stricken with fire?

That I love when
The clouds become somber,
Hoary, and gray?

What if I told you
The broken is beautiful,
The tragic sublime?

And what if I said
That God is a jokester—
He likes a good laugh?

What if I told you
The wrenching truth, instead
Of beautiful lies?

What if I told you
Stories more real than all
The things of this world?

Or what if I said
The lost may unearth what
The saved ones forgot?

What if I told you
The world might be saved by
A couple of fools?

David B. Gosselin is a poet, translator, writer, and researcher based in Montreal. He is the founder of The Chained Muse and hosts Escaping the Brave New World.