Cyrus (with the sexy long nose)

--------------/Cyrus


Your green eyes, when we met
felt like
an alliance with Darius the Mede
Babylon was yours in 539 BC

Shattered watchtowers, amalgams of brick, mortar
scattered vestiges of dreams
the pride of a nation, emotions of my heart
collapsed
beneath the tyranny of battering rams of girls' cruelty
Nebuchadnezzar
spinning flaming torches tossed high
the burning of my ex girlfriend’s words
“Im glad Im with you now, because now I know what
I don’t want in my husband” conflagration soot thick black smoke
Men sobbing aloud, women wailing mute
children petrified, my innocence
drug off in chains
cannibalism of hope

But your buxom breasts became my emancipation
your long nose my deference
notwithstanding your shiftiness
or a nation's naiveté’
Gentile benefactor to Jew
kindness and flattery like a letter of assent sent
fondly forth for me - your Nehemiah
rebuilding the faith I used to have
the wall of my desire

reconstructing the second temple of love
I can throw my chains in the past aimed at old paradigms
wristlet and anklet shackles
and spit my bitter poison spittle on the path behind me
of the old regime of darkling optimism

I loved your emails, Jennifer
everything about you
why did you just ignore me and move away
I still want us to be together;

horses, cattle, sheep, goats, donkeys, camels


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This is what the LORD says to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I take hold of to subdue nations before him and to strip kings of their armor, to open doors before him so that gates will not be shut: I will go before you and will level the mountains; I will break down gates of bronze and cut through bars of iron. I will give you the treasures of darkness, riches stored in secret places, so that you may know that I am the LORD, the God of Israel, who summons you by name. For the sake of Jacob my servant, of Israel my chosen, I summon you by name and bestow on you a title of honor, though you do not acknowledge me. I am the LORD, and there is no other; apart from me there is no God. I will strengthen you, though you have not acknowledged me, so that from the rising of the sun to the place of its setting men may know there is none besides me. I am the LORD, and there is no other. I form the light and create darkness, I bring prosperity and create disaster; I, the LORD, do all these things. "You heavens above, rain down righteousness; let the clouds shower it down. Let the earth open wide, let salvation spring up, let righteousness grow with it; I, the LORD, have created it (Isaiah 45:1-8)