Just when all she saw was anger in the surrounding faces
And her faith in humanity from all redemptive graces
Had fallen, and she lost control, lashing out with bitter pique,
She realized that after she had struck him 'cross the cheek,
And his eyes were neither angry nor did they reek of blame,
That she had hurt the only one who called her by his name.
Humanity has once before been host to pure perfection,
But treated it with nothing less than unthinking rejection.
And now we seem to shake our heads and without a pause, condemn
And distrust all of the human race without really knowing them.
And so she lost her faith in what is already too flawed
To begin to blame, and so she demanded of her God
To avenge her for her wounds without a care that her own heart
Was no better than the peccant world of which she was a part.
And when the one who knew the truth tried to make her understand,
She continued to for injustice a remedy demand.
He told her with compassion that the best way to subdue
Injustice was to surrender it and drive it far from you.
She could not grasp her frailty and so lost her restraint,
Becoming an example of the toxicity, the taint
She strove to bring an end to, and yet he still did not reprove.
Tis a shame that through her fury she could not perceive his love.
postscript
I came up with bits and peices of this all day but it didn't come together until now, in the wee hours of the morning. For that reason there's a word I can't quite recall and I wondered if you could help me. In line five above, I said "reek" for the verb, but there's actually another one that is niggling at the back of my mind but I can't quite remember. It means more along the lines of "remind". Do you know what it is? It would replace "reek".