Gander Story Poems: Coat Of Many Colors 4-15-12

April 15, 2012

If brothers plot to kill you -

they tease and taunt and gloat -

and it was taken from you -

your multicolored coat -

if sin and evil torture you -

and throw you in a pit -

if dry and dusty are those walls

yet you refuse to quit -

if try, you to convince them -

but heckles are aplenty -

if sold then into slavery -

for shekels, only twenty -

if sold again, again you are -

and lies persist unjust -

if after you are thrown in jail -

in God, you still will trust -

then after all is said and done -

and king and father see -

the tears of joy will flow again.

Forgiving there will be.

Oh, God will one day make amends

to them who were deceived -

and 'coat of many colors' is,

for those who have believed...

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(The plot against Joseph starts in Genesis, chapter 37)