The Hamlet Project

The ministers of grace have high collars and they sit
At high tables on chairs just as high. They have large books of grace that they refer to from time to time – a log of acts of grace from each and every person.
Every time grace is given to someone,
The ministers write it down in the books.
When they do, they often discover that they’ve conferred
Extra grace on this or that person and they flag that page with a little red thread.
They mean it all to be fair but there isn’t time to check the books
Before conferment. Not usually. And the red threads fall out sometimes
As they lift the books from shelf to table.
The floor is littered with little well meaning red threads and some blues ones as well.
The blue thread is for the ones who have no marks next to their names in the book
Or only a few. They mean to give these ones extra grace, extra defense, extra hope but The ministers are very busy. Like everyone and the system is flawed and they don’t have The time or the manpower to change it. The man that cleans the ministry’s chambers Picks up the blue threads carefully out the day’s sweepings. He collects the threads
In mason jars. Slowly, he has been weaving them together making a thick blue rope.
Jars and rope give his room a light blue glow that some times lights his careful work.