Between us and you a great gulf has been fixed.
To stop anyone crossing from your side to ours.
By our past we stand transfixed.
We are as from from heaven as the stars.

This parable of the starving Lazarus is disturbing .

The only character in a parable named.
We are nameless in our banqueting.
And we know we are shamed.

How often we ignored him at our gate.
We never were actually unkind.
What then when we die will be our fate.
Are we to hell consigned.

Every year I read this parable.
Little do we change, but it is unbearable.

……

Lazarus’ fate
Was to rise up to heaven
And what will be ours

….

See Luke 16: 19-31