* dedicated to Taylor Swift
#TaylorDateTony #wcw
(OH TAYTAY, WONT YOU LOVE ME TODAY-DAY??!!!...sorry #CalvinHarris)
+----- The Massah and Meribah Of Us
Taylor,
like a Chosen People wandering
aimlessly,
under a hot and unbearable sun,
impatiently expecting an imminent
reward for their labors, brimming with
optimism for a better life than
the one they fled
in their torturous past -
the whips, the verbal scorn, the racial
and religious epithets
from mercenary guards in Egypt
while building exorbitant pyramids
they weren’t even allowed to enter
into for a despot - I thirst. Love is like
water to my parched heart,
sustenance for my soul as I make an
attempt to endure the arid desert air
of singleness (trying to sidestep scorpions
of dejection from girls who diss
me, mocking my overtures). I know
too well the cold and chilling teeth
chattering nights of a personage
pining for someone
to wrap their warm arms around him
and sing him to sleep (#badblood
#shakeitoff) but waking near death
from hypothermia; I know
the disappointment at a woman’s charm-
cum-disdain, a brittle, withered cactus
standing upright with no
moisture in it. Oh Taylor, your hair
is like a cool breeze, your eyes
blue as the Red sea I left behind me,
that I yearn now, desperately, to swim in-
waters that drowned Pharaoh’s army,
my cruel ex girlfriends in chariots of
condescension sinking beneath waves
of bitter memory
bitter memory: death of their respect
like firstborn sons. Oh baby,
wont you stand upon my crag, the
hardened cynicism of my prolonged
loneliness, that rock in Horeb, mountain
of my ultimate hope and belief in marital
bliss with a mesmerizing woman
and strike it with the staff of your
heavenly kiss? Waters of joy would pour
forth, this gushing stream of affection,
laughter, and euphoria.
I promise, then, I would stop my grousing,
I would stop doubting and complaining
about whether or not
Goodness was with me,
about all girls who hurt me before,
of not having food.
I would believe then, firmly
(in us). The Promised Land
of me and you….happily ever after.
--- Exodus 17:3-7
And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst? And Moses cried unto the Lord, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me. And the Lord said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thine hand, and go. Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel. And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the Lord, saying, Is the Lord among us, or not?
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