I - Eden
The crown of thorns
Woven from an Imposter’s
Garden.
How can I
Claim knowledge—
Claim ownership—
Over the object
Of my ignorance?
I am the snake
Choking itself on itself—
Unfounded belief—
In the Garden.
II - Adam
In the Garden
You promised Your love
Ad infinitum.
For a time, I delighted
In the salt-spray of salvation—
The roaring rush of redemption.
A river.
Until the base which I had built
Tumbled from beneath my feet
And I forgot to reach out—
Forgot Your promises…
I fell, and I forgot.
III-Noah
I fell, and I forgot,
But You remembered
In the midst of the swell.
The proud river humbled,
The blinding currents opened
My eyes
To behold You.
The crimson skies of my pride,
Presuppositions,
Prepared properly Your arrival
On bent light rendered visible.
A new promise.
IV - Abraham
A new promise,
Though I turn my sails
Away from You, ad infinitum.
You take my hand
And lead me to
Your House (ֵ בּ ֵ ית-אל)
Never shall I doubt
Again (a lie)
You who sewed the constellations
Into the skies of this new land—new
Era. For You have promised:
I am Your people.
V - Moses
I am Your people;
I cry out to You
For I am oppressed—
Eating my own tail, Beginning
Again to feel the growing pains,
Whipped by my very own
Nine-tailed nature. Yet,
Ever-faithful, (the ocean’s
Eagle-winged waves spread
To let Your Spirit guide),
Your promise
Guarantees a song.
VI - David
Guarantees a song
(Your promise does).
You put my pen to paper.
It is You who scribes a story—
A sprawling Epic
Of Eden—to be sung,
Sprawling—singing—ad infinitum
Though I may drown
Your songbook tomorrow,
You will still give me
The Beginning and
The End.
VII - Eden
The End
Comes on water, and I—
Mesmerized—cannot
Look away. Instead,
In spite of myself, I walk to Him—
buoyed by promises,
To Him—
The Promise, promised
To crush underfoot
My unrelenting ouroboros.
It is He who bears
The Crown of Thorns.
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