A Sonnet for Judas’s Righteous Intention

Monday of Holy Week
Gospel: John 12:1-11
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/041425.cfm

Lazarus, Martha, and Mary broke bread
With Jesus six days before Passover.
Martha served the meal and kept the group fed.
Lazarus reclined as all was kosher.

Mary took a liter of perfumed oil
Made from genuine aromatic nard.
With her hands and hair, his feet she did toil. 
The house was filled with scents from her regard.

Judas Iscariot, a disciple,
Spoke his concern to what was being done,
“Costly perfume on your feet is idle
When the poor could be fed by selling some.”

As his death was close by, Jesus said plain, 
“You’ll see me gone soon as the poor shall remain.”