Poetry Friday - lestai

lestaiThe rebels hang today, the latest round-up having netted three. No easy timewe had arresting them, the sullen scumwho dwell in this unhomely, barren landwere helping them evade us. One appearsto think himself a priest of some sort. Hewas charged by local law with blasphemy,though treason is the crime that hangs him. (Warsof liberation led by holy men!You'd never find the like in any