The Pilgrim Chapter 34 (Inspired by a Kris Kristofferson Song)

The man who saw the pilgrim
Drove by in his broken car,
He gave him twenty dollars
To spend on whisky bottles and whores.
He knew it might be between them
An unspoken heavy verse
That that man in that car right there
Might one day see the worst.
He was a true Christian
And knew it very well
That this world there right between us
Might as well be living hell.
The good world was forgotten
The bad world came and gone
The thirty-first persecution had already just begun.
So that man passing out his dollars
Saw the broken man at the bar.
He did not say a word in judgment
But just drove by in his car.

It was all just that Christian
Right there in that car
Who proved His God did live one day
And died upon a cross.
So the world was angry
So the world was cross
They took that man in his car
And counted him as a great loss.
His parents, they both hated him
His brothers were great men
His life was fallen to pieces
But he counted it as vain.
The thirty-first persecution
Was that only man thus far
For the whole world had forgotten
Christ's words from the very start.

He, like a poet's brother, dreamed to die upon the rack
But they charged that he was cursed to live
And wander the railroad tracks.
Thus the world wandered, it drew to its great fame
The world was ever joyful, and the Christian called insane.
Thus was the punishment
That Pilgrim put on him
For when the Christian gave him money
He said, "Good deeds, they are a sin."
Thus the world went on and on,
And Christ was little known
They forgot that man who fed the pilgrim
Who the world, he proved Christ rose.