No one would listen. He,
Laden with prophecy,
Spoke and the crowd ignored
Commandments from the Lord;
He spoke to tell
The imminent wreck of Israel.
Priest Amaziah heard
His ineffective word.
“Now leave sedition, and
Return to your own land,
As pig to sty,
And there eat bread and prophesy.”
He answered him, but went
Home in diminishment,
Bewildered how he could
Do as God said he should;
“No priest am I,
Yet I am told to prophesy.”
In solitude he wrote
So that all men took note.
Withdrawal to the cave
Perfected what God gave.
By drudgery
He made the bread of prophecy.
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