* Moses, pray for me
* dedicated to Stephen Curry
#thejesusmetaphorandSteph #IamBardCurry
+-----Steph In The Promised Land; The Enemy Discomfited
Steph, every night you stand
opposite savage nemeses obstructing
your passage to the promised land (the
lush and verdant country of NBA
champions flowing with milk, honey
and pomegranates of lionization
from media and fans). Tall and churlish
warriors flaunting ghastly tattoos on
their skin wield flails of defensive
shot blocking, axes of hard fouls,
iron shortswords of double teams,
and longbows of the full court press
against you, mounting an insidious campaign
to validate the slanderous scouting
reports, proxies of Pharaoh
haunting you
from your pre-NBA career, panicked
wailing of jealous horses and men
drowning on the other side of the Red Sea,
the philosophy of plagued Egyptians
now deceased. Tip-off is when the
battle begins in earnest, when
hardwood courts become the vast and
barren plains of Rephidim, the referee’s
whistle like a horn sounding
the charge inciting cavalry
to lust for blood, standing on two feet
at the smell of victory. But you are always
fearless, an inimitable warrior with
a sleight of hand divinely bequeathed,
handling the basketball like a rod
of God in your hands. Your raised arms
are a rallying cry for the rest of the team,
your three pointers
javelins thrust in Western Conference
team records, battering rams waylaying
fortified walls of playoff ambitions of
those teams in the brittle
infantries of the Eastern Conference.
As long as you have the support of
Klay Thompson and Draymond Green,
Aaron and Hur spreading the floor
so that your arms don’t go numb,
the Golden State Warriors will prevail
and enter Canaan. Tears of your frustrated
opponents will fall to the ground,
the bodies of Amelekites in chariots
stricken by arrows
strewn on dirt of humiliation
at the going down of the sun.
-----Exodus 17:8-16
Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand. So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. But Moses hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword. And the Lord said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovahnissi: For he said, Because the Lord hath sworn that the Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation
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