The Secret Truth

-----------/Canaan's Best Kept Secret/ The Secrets Between: Rahab's Words To The Two Israelite Spies She Met

In Canaan
relativism runs rampant especially amongst society's rued
repulsed and repressed rejected without a voice
ravaged by a life on the run without reward. A benevolent king would never
allow a woman under his rule to resort to selling her body relegating
her honor
to the past only. At the very least she would have economic opportunity
to the redeem the time
to make an honest living
rescue romance from self esteem ravaged and racked by guilt and men
who yield pregnancies unwanted thus perpetuating the risk a rousing
reflection of indifference. And there is a fire inside me burning when I cry
there is only ash, when men shove my face away during sex - legalized
rape - the spit from my mouth on their faces only soot
trickling with my intentional palpable remorse at being born into inequity
smoke of helpless desperation rises in my prayers for righteousness
my improbable aspirations to mother and nurse a child with love I never
received. Two strange men, representatives of dubious hope:
change the land
Foster honor, nobility, Truth. all our lives we have been lied to accepted
abuse, mistreatment, poor men dying of seizures untreated
privileged families stepping over them as the golden standard
of objective reasonableness
gods who do not listen to pleas for inner peace, only dictating intercourse
with beasts men who are the totem of the nightmare recurring
that never stops; to you I reach out
redefine goodness
in a harlot's world where those maligned die without burials open tombs of
scorn on the grass - a maggot's meal
show us sharing, a living wage, doctors who care and treat all equally
harbingers of healing
a place where woman are special, and the markets take pride in fair price
a kingdom where even animals have dignity where marriage is exalted and the chance afforded all - to love/(a God who cares)
for where I live, virtue and vice are conflated by the ruling class
to them
stalks of flax and hiding spies intending their demise is evil
but to me
it is the Supreme Good


(A sweet lie)



--------Joshua 2:1-8
And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men to spy secretly, saying, Go view the land, even Jericho. And they went, and came into an harlot's house, named Rahab, and lodged there. And it was told the king of Jericho, saying, Behold, there came men in hither to night of the children of Israel to search out the country. And the king of Jericho sent unto Rahab, saying, Bring forth the men that are come to thee, which are entered into thine house: for they be come to search out all the country. And the woman took the two men, and hid them, and said thus, There came men unto me, but I wist not whence they were: And it came to pass about the time of shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out: whither the men went I wot not: pursue after them quickly; for ye shall overtake them. But she had brought them up to the roof of the house, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof. And the men pursued after them the way to Jordan unto the fords: and as soon as they which pursued after them were gone out, they shut the gate.