Scripture Reference: Daniel 3: 13-26 (NIV)
God shut the ravenous lions’ mouths.
Daniel slept, a sleep of faith.
Not so the King’s advisors.
The King stood over the den,
his brain fetid with confusion.
(Had he not seen the fourth man dancing
in the furnace flames,
seen those Israeli boys
unsinged, not a hair…)
He should have known that the lions’ jaws would
never rip and tear the man of vegetables and dreams.
Anger filled the King. He did not have to speak.
Shot his eyes at the guards. Without a word, they seized
those who said Daniel would not worship the King.
Threw the advisors and their wives and children to the jaws.
Daniel wept.
Originally published in Grey Sparrow Journal