The Great Baptism

Rain will fall hard and long. The heir will become the disinherited and the orphans will finally be bathed. The drunks will refresh, grab wrists, and buoy. The quarrelsome shall bury their pride or drown in the waters. Beggars will float in their tattered regalia, lifted to the heavens by the raised palms of waves while the cloaks and capes of the ships' captains are tugged by gales and ripped like their ships' sails and banners and the ships themselves will splinter and the captains will sink. The seamen will grab planks and float to the heights of Glory. Righteousness prefers the weak and humble, cares not for title, not for merit; embraces the meek, casts out the cruel.