In the worst of times, martyrs will march barefooted into foreign lands To toil its earth with flesh and sweat and blood They jaunt north to south searching for milk and honey and gold coins to put in their empty pockets
They stop to find out that they cannot walk barefooted For the road is nothing but thorns and hot sand that scorch the feet The merciless air is aloof and condescending These people, they suffered for their skin cracks in the winter and burns in the rain
Their tongue aches from speaking a different language: voices turned into an unfathomable cadence Frail skin torched like a hot tar to tissue paper leaving only blackened soot They come home with a dry mouth and scarred heart
These heroes will look up above into the cold night sky to look for inkling of stars that guided them For there is nothing sweeter than to bring food back home To where hungry mouths and empty hands suffer in pain