Thursday, July 30, 2009

Zoe Kravitz, PLEASE dont make me kill my son!


Then God said, "Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about."

-------------------[Zoe, Im willing to make the sacrifice]

My love for you is like wood, a stone altar
and a knife
its like a distant traveler from a foreign land
crossing borders
anxious and just beginning his travails
walking, waiting and not knowing
how to interpret what he hears from God

Baby,
My trust in you is like a donkey enduring
like a long journey with the weight of conscience on its back
knees beginning to buckle
accompanied by two servants, hope and reason
only providing false security
...and water (a temporary relief)…and bread (brief satiation)
(until I have you I will always be empty inside)
treading towards the base of the unknown – Mount Moriah
steadily
obediently
in sheer silence, urged on by the nebulous sunrise

Girl, don't you see?
I have left behind all I know
my sanity, my joy, my father and my kin
to climb this mountain of pure chance
and offer the sacrifice of my one true refuge – my dignity –
like Isaac my only son…
and my love for you is so sharp that it will bind up the last shred
of dignity I own and stab it, and burn it, and cry over its ashes
rising up in black smoke shrouding the sun…

but Im hoping you don’t let it go that far, girl...


(PLEASE LOVE ME ZOE, IM TAKING A CHANCE ON YOU, DON’T MAKE ME HAVE TO KILL MY SON!!!!!!!!!!)

[just to be with you, just to know you – just to be together, just to kiss you]

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Genesis 22:3-12
Early the next morning Abraham got up and saddled his donkey. He took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. When he had cut enough wood for the burnt offering, he set out for the place God had told him about. On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance. He said to his servants, "Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there. We will worship and then we will come back to you." Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them went on together, Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, "Father?"
Yes, my son?" Abraham replied. "The fire and wood are here," Isaac said, "but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?" Abraham answered, "God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son." And the two of them went on together. When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son. But the angel of the LORD called out to him from heaven, "Abraham! Abraham!" "Here I am," he replied. "Do not lay a hand on the boy," he said. "Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son."

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