Seeking His Shelter

----------/Seeking His Shelter: 1 Kings and Things Ch. 5; Solomon's Silent Prayer Before Building the Temple


Mirth and mourning, love and birth hopeful reflection and supplications unstructured;
spiritually
we are wandering in a wilderness beneath the moon
brushing our anxious faces with white luminescent hue highlighting tension:
black and white the night sky juxtaposed with brightness hope unharnessed
The specter of a laggard legacy fleeing a spry dissipation,
wiped from memory.Tents and clouds nebulae against a culture stressed by sectarian strife strained shown swords slashing since scribes sung sadly seeking shelter somberly struggling silently staring screaming silhouettes down while dreaming, scared to move save suturing scabs from sinister whips in Egypt. Speculation's cold unfeeling embrace shunned, tired of uncertainty,
of a god in the ether unsure of his return and a tenuous tent
torched without a moment's notice from our borders
from which we are languishing
in resistance to lively pagan blood sacrifice and sanguine choruses
lauding lavish ceremonies with exorbitant amounts of sex and wine
and tender meats and spices, gorgeous, voluptuous women forbidden
to touch but so tempting to sacrifice our children for.
We cry for divinity with parameters, understandable in form we risk
weakness but we yearn for limitation
if that means we can indubitably know we are loved. That a priest
speaks from God through signs and wonders in our midst vindicated
promises of Moses and Abraham that we shall live forever
populous as the sands on the seashore
so we can marry and know you are there
and when a child is born we know you will protect him
when the nations enquire we can correct them saying
a lover never untrue
a king who never absconds

(this is his house - from which we shall never depart)

-----------/1 Kings 5:5;17-18
And, behold, I purpose to build an house unto the name of the Lord my God, as the Lord spake unto David my father, saying, Thy son, whom I will set upon thy throne in thy room, he shall build an house unto my name. And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house. And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did hew them, and the stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house.