The Wise Men and the Roman Authorities

“Are we under them or not?” they debated, “Do we owe them explanation?”, they demurred, Sure of their validation of this baby, they stated, To Herod that one day it’d be the king conferred. They knew they were doing something wrong, To the Christ family and Jesus life which awaited, Making his work harder by allowing scoffing long, Specifying him for the Romans to have him fated. But they believed in sociology as the mechanism, For difficulties to be worked out through, And upheld life and society as the atheism, Which would confront their classism rue. So revealed to Herod the birth of the child divine, But kept back his address and how he looked, So Herod ordered the death of every baby fine, In order to kill that one infant that he’d booked. He didn’t like the intelligence of the Zoroastrians, The magi respected by all as insightful wise men; Jews were bypassed easily as emotional pedestrians, But the magi comprehended rational thought, ken. So the wise men had integrity by respecting authority, Showed consistency in their task to specify and select; Were the original intellectuals who had subjectivity, To both the Israeli people and the government elect.