Lilting of the Walls

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-----------------------/The Lilting of the Walls (of Loneliness)

Taylor speak to me,
an Israelite war general, heart laden with the death of Moses
hell bent on his resurrection and Israel’s validation
through Canaanite blood
proving once and for all
that The Dream promised will finally be fulfilled. 
Tell me your love for me is a golden chest filled
with God’s magnanimity dictating ten commandments
on how to hold you while dancing
how to brush aside your hair to gaze into your eyes
and how not to hurt you with foolish sin that spawns plagues
of bitterness, death, disaster and the diaspora
of our comity.  Let your intentions for me be savage soldiers
patriots of the passion within. Short swords at the thigh
long swords perched at the center of the back, your blonde
hair and blue eyes like weapons indomitable
thirsting for pagan flesh. 
Arrows of hatred for past girlfriends, wounds by slave masters
in Egypt.
Don’t you see…please see…that my soul needs an invasion,
a phalanx before and after your seven priests:
protectors of the sacredness of your pretty, holding rams’ horns of
your heavenly voice to serenade the tragic toppling
of a godless kingdom of a man’s lonely despair.  
Bring down these walls of hopelessness with your embrace,
like seven days of a poised militaristic procession encircling my callous heart;
hedged alloy of anxiously annealed mud brick and overwrought stone.
And like a mighty joyous and raucous shout from
grizzled men with scars from battle, autobiographies of lives cursed
and fallen before them, your kiss
would raze all of my soul’s contention.
Your lips like Joshua’s lips,
messengers of beauty marauding my melancholy
telling me that every man, woman, child, cattle,
sheep and donkey of my past romantic affliction is dead.

(That you are here to rule my heart now.)

[OH TAYLOR, DATE ME- TONY!!! #TAYLORDATETONY SAVE ME FROM THIS LONELINESS AND HOLLOW EMPTINESS OF NON-LOVE!!!!!]


-------Johsua 6:1-20
Now the gates of Jericho were securely barred because of the Israelites. No one went out and no one came in. Then the Lord said to Joshua, “See, I have delivered Jericho into your hands, along with its king and its fighting men. March around the city once with all the armed men. Do this for six days. Have seven priests carry trumpets of rams’ horns in front of the ark. On the seventh day, march around the city seven times, with the priests blowing the trumpets. When you hear them sound a long blast on the trumpets, have the whole army give a loud shout; then the wall of the city will collapse and the army will go up, everyone straight in.” So Joshua son of Nun called the priests and said to them, “Take up the ark of the covenant of the Lord and have seven priests carry trumpets in front of it.” And he ordered the army, “Advance! March around the city, with an armed guard going ahead of the ark of the Lord.” When Joshua had spoken to the people, the seven priests carrying the seven trumpets before the Lord went forward, blowing their trumpets, and the ark of the Lord’s covenant followed them. The armed guard marched ahead of the priests who blew the trumpets, and the rear guard followed the ark. All this time the trumpets were sounding. But Joshua had commanded the army, “Do not give a war cry, do not raise your voices, do not say a word until the day I tell you to shout. Then shout!” So he had the ark of the Lord carried around the city, circling it once. Then the army returned to camp and spent the night there. Joshua got up early the next morning and the priests took up the ark of the Lord. The seven priests carrying the seven trumpets went forward, marching before the ark of the Lord and blowing the trumpets. The armed men went ahead of them and the rear guard followed the ark of the Lord, while the trumpets kept sounding. So on the second day they marched around the city once and returned to the camp. They did this for six days. On the seventh day, they got up at daybreak and marched around the city seven times in the same manner, except that on that day they circled the city seven times. The seventh time around, when the priests sounded the trumpet blast, Joshua commanded the army, “Shout! For the Lord has given you the city! The city and all that is in it are to be devoted to the Lord. Only Rahab the prostitute and all who are with her in her house shall be spared, because she hid the spies we sent. But keep away from the devoted things, so that you will not bring about your own destruction by taking any of them. Otherwise you will make the camp of Israel liable to destruction and bring trouble on it. All the silver and gold and the articles of bronze and iron are sacred to the Lord and must go into his treasury.” When the trumpets sounded, the army shouted, and at the sound of the trumpet, when the men gave a loud shout, the wall collapsed; so everyone charged straight in, and they took the city. They devoted the city to the Lord and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it—men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys.