God told them all they must forget, <br />and start their lives anew once Sodom burned, <br />but one of them was so beset <br />by grief for family and friends she turned <br />to look behind and was appalled. <br />Since God could not forgive that she forgot <br />His words, He turned her into salt, <br />a pillar looking backwards, Mrs. Lot. <br />He thought, “Don't dwell upon the past, ” <br />and kashered her with salt to make her sever <br />her spirit from her flesh, recast <br />as monument to memory forever. <br />Her blood, which is the spirit, drained <br />away because her flesh had been corrupted <br />by past events that she complained <br />hot brimstoned fire cruelly interrupted, <br />though when she looked behind, some say, <br />she wasn’t looking backwards at the past, <br />but froze when trying to survey <br />the future, gazing gnostically aghast. <br /> <br />11/7/98,6/9/06,5/10/07 <br /><br />gershon hepner<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/pass-the-salt-mrs-lot/
