Walking Through the Storm

Walking Through the Storm is a narrative account from a contemporary perspective of John the Baptist's exile in the desert two thousand years ago. Translating his experience of persecution in times of King Herod into a context of the twenty first century Western World, the poem portrays the contrasts and conflicts that come out as the poem's protagonist confronts permissive barbiture culture and advises against the increaing divorce rate.The story ends in his horrific martyrdom.