Exodus
I would rather be celibate, covered with
Chastity labels on comforters, hooded in monastic clothing
Alone with eunuch dreams of terrain untouched by Demeter.
Your murals and walls were scrawled with legal terminology
I felt the texture of the depression that formed your name,
Its script splintered my fingers into fragments of glass.
This was a corporate contract of convenience, not a covenant
As with The Lord and Abraham, Issac and his descendants
Currency is deflected like boomerangs while flung at counterfeit marriages.
I was iron corroding to rust, reversals of Genesis,
You were Adam disintegrating to particles of dust.
I filed for divorce, paving the path for an exodus
Out of this relationship, the fulfillment of the promise of deliverance
And then my daughter's violation was an infliction of vicarious punishment.
Apprentices and proteges pictured you as reverential priests, conferring sainthood
The conductor of philharmonics is used to hearing an aria of applause
As violinists wearing veils bow in worship, and statuesque singers
Polyphonic choirs chant heralded hymns of worthiness and praise.
I entered tunnels of transition, emptying sanctuaries and tabernacles
Of what I thought were truthful testaments, or lingering lullabies of light
Invigorating and informing in the early evening.
Submerging these subterranean schemes in ponds and lakes
I wanted Neptune's trident to transform these bodies of water to blood
As Moses mystically did with outstretched arms and staffs, or drain
It dry like the Western Sahara or the Gobi Desert , so that
Petals wouldn't fall from an ever expanding rose universe
And women of the world wouldn't wither by drinking from it,
Like other slaves or statistical victims.
Reason for writing:
I was inspired to write this poem because of a class that I'm taking at college. I had to read the first two books of the bible, Genesis, Exodus, as well as parts of the book of Deuteronomy and the Book of Jonah.
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