A Cloud Tableau

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* Paul pray for me
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+-------A Cloud Tableau; Saint Paul's Thoughts As He Was Carried By Roman Soldiers To Safety

My haunch teeters on shoulders,
disjointed, beneath shoulder
plates (torn in war), my back lain across
a thick hirsute neck with an
elongated vertical scar, my head
ricocheting between three metal helmets,
and my nose grazes against those gaudy
vexatious tuffs. Ensconced in a legion,
I am the rhythm of the march I despised.
Gazing, momentarily, into the sky, the
tableau of my life in cloud figures… is this
really my life? Jeering mobs of my people,
who I loved so dearly I killed for, would
now kill me. Saved by soldiers of Caesar
who cruelly oppress his brothers, from his
brothers, a Pharisee, in desperation,
fervently preaches a salvation extrinsic to
his religion by birth. Truly, Jesus, you have
turned my world completely
upside down.

-----Acts 21:30-36
And all the city was moved, and the people ran together: and they took Paul, and drew him out of the temple: and forthwith the doors were shut. And as they went about to kill him, tidings came unto the chief captain of the band, that all Jerusalem was in an uproar. Who immediately took soldiers and centurions, and ran down unto them: and when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, they left beating of Paul. Then the chief captain came near, and took him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains; and demanded who he was, and what he had done. And some cried one thing, some another, among the multitude: and when he could not know the certainty for the tumult, he commanded him to be carried into the castle. And when he came upon the stairs, so it was, that he was borne of the soldiers for the violence of the people. For the multitude of the people followed after, crying, Away with him.