let them leave you

none of you can tell. none of you
can do as well as a verb can
none of you can dare speak of hell
as though a place unfit or fit
for its inhabitants. no one.
none of you. can tell why God will
burn down all that he claims to love.
none of you can tell. none of you.
can be kind to choose to die first
to save a lad. or to forfeit
to allow your neighbor own it.
none of you will allow you be.

leonell echa