Aaa The Jealous Leper

(I mark my newest poems with AAA so they show easily up top) . There was a man once inflicted with miserable leprosy his story, the mind it stuns but such was his jealousy! Came one day some angels to him with mercy to heal his ailment They inquired of his wish and whim but were in for a shocking lament.! The angels asked him as to whether he wanted health restored, his disease healed Replied the leper, 'he wanted neither What he said hence, his jealousy revealed! For he said, ''you needn't heal me, but instead Inflict everyone else with my malady as well let all of them lie loathed and deplored in bed, as I've had to all these days like hell''! The angels thus astounded simply returned to heaven with neither healing him nor inflicting others They still wonder from above the heavens O' seven at how man envies his fellow brothers. Ah envy is a fire that consumes n' exhumes thee most far better for humans if they coveted not Why want ye, haunt ye another's fortune like some covetous malevolent ghost? Therefore why at all covet You haven't right to it unless it was your right, or was snatched A fit of jealousy might make you regret and to hell you may be dispatched.!