by Tommy George
Do not remove the ancient landmark, nor enter the fields of the fatherless: For their Redeemer is mighty; He will plead their cause against you. Proverbs 23:10-11
If winnowed there by birth or circumstance
To dwell among the chaff a barren season
Perhaps to die, perhaps to kill a man.
Each soul must learn patience in fatherless fields:
In its words, no cause of action to belie;
in demeanor, no blunted ax to grind,
no apostasy from the wonted God
Who serves every just cause in its due time.
God forbids replacement of the ancient stones
ever-standing, to mark each tribal domain,
but governs a covenant lost to the wind,
a propriety stricken, useless as chaff
when lands fall to gods of a different band.
Fatherless children must endure the Other
a-snore in Mother's blanket, when Father's gone
to yawning Sheol. Sacred emoluments
assure everything, yet provide for nothing,
save that Abu's spirit may be looking on.
In such eras, widows of the vanquished
beget silent, brooding generations
whose God crowns the son untroubled by scorn,
who glories in bramble fields over-thorned
to nettle those in wrongful possession.
Ire will reign for many a season,
burning the wrongful race back behind borders,
restoring the promised lands back to the clans.
Until milder men instinctively forget
How ashes spawned the Beast from their poverty
that wrought a feast from their powerlessness.
a-snore in Mother's blanket, when Father's gone
to yawning Sheol. Sacred emoluments
assure everything, yet provide for nothing,
save that Abu's spirit may be looking on.
In such eras, widows of the vanquished
beget silent, brooding generations
whose God crowns the son untroubled by scorn,
who glories in bramble fields over-thorned
to nettle those in wrongful possession.
Ire will reign for many a season,
burning the wrongful race back behind borders,
restoring the promised lands back to the clans.
Until milder men instinctively forget
How ashes spawned the Beast from their poverty
that wrought a feast from their powerlessness.
2 comments:
Good idea I would consider deleting the following section for lucidity and brevity, primarily for flow and lack of semantic congestion.
Small children chafe to abide the other
a-snore in Mother's bed, when Father's gone
to yawning Sheol. Holy emoluments
assure everything, yet provide for nothing,
save that Abu's spirit may be looking on.
God forbids replacement of the ancient stones
ever-standing, to mark each tribal domain.
They govern a covenant lost to the wind,
a propriety winnowed, useless as chaff
when the field falls to God of a different name.
seems to me the above section is clogging everything up...Just my opinion :--)
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