Falling Up

*dedicated to anyone forsaken
* dedicated to TDKR, and of course that fine hottie, Anne Hathaway!!!!


------------------------/Falling Up: Joseph's Thoughts Upon Nourishing His Family During The Great Famine, Years After His Abandonment

Absurdity is an empty pit of sorrow
parched
into which jealousy, pettiness and the crassness thrust
the driven, the ambitious
to die alone in the darkness and dread of ennui
preceded by harrowing entropy: the precipitous fall of the great
into the despair of nothingness the specter of accomplishing
the illustrious, the inimitable faded from memory
the sun the moon and the stars bowing
the stalks of corn bowing
that these adversaries might sleep well albeit deplorably
their own purpose to assuage their coarse envy in order that another
not surpass them in (infinitesimal) renown, pathetic
but opportunity arises in the guise of Ishmaelite traders
for the honorable at a time chosen must always part ways with the vile
sold
(for virtue always rises wickedness descends)
and the dank putrid prisons of chance in the Egyptian kingdom of
endless possibility
far exceed the scant tents of limitation from which I was expelled
the progressive nature of dream building, a baker, a Pharaoh a salacious
adultress a crucible
proving grounds to make stalwart and firm the magnanimous ruler second
only to Pharaoh himself
the palette of my thoughts colored with the vivid hues of the coat of inspiration
torn from my hands and rent asunder, illumined this tenebrous path
sobbing in the pit, weeping in prison on those disconsolate days
with none left to comfort me save the voice of my father
whose belief became mine in whose vision I overcame blindness
of optimism
when the rats beyond the bars
advanced forth upon my feeble body squealing victory my screams
of defiance scattered them in defeat; for my voice transcended...
(startling the guards)
echoing through years in time
I shrilled at eleven boys' attempts at futility hurling their brother
(with divine aspirations to conquer the world)
in a hole of nothingness doubting forever that he would one day
rise

[and stall as tall, even taller, than the sun and the moon and the stars
his whole family (and the world)
falling at his feet
- famished]

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Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours. Genesis  And they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer cometh. Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams. And Reuben heard it, and he delivered him out of their hands; and said, Let us not kill him. And Reuben said unto them, Shed no blood, but cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, and lay no hand upon him; that he might rid him out of their hands, to deliver him to his father again. And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his brethren, that they stript Joseph out of his coat, his coat of many colours that was on him; And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it. Genesis 37:3,19-24

And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou art: thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou. And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt. And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck; And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried before him, Bow the knee: and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt. And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and without thee shall no man lift up his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt. Genesis 41:39-44

Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they are in the land of Goshen. And he took some of his brethren, even five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh. And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What is your occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both we, and also our fathers. They said morever unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we come; for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.  And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee: The land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest any men of activity among them, then make them rulers over my cattle. And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou? And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage. And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh. And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded. And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to their families. And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine. Genesis 47:1-13