Home Is Where The Heart Is; Uriah's Last Words To King David #IamUriah

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+------------Home Is Where The Heart Is; Uriah's Last Words To King David

I want to have sex with my wife,
she’s beautiful, I love her,
I do. But my tunic, sandals
stained, are blotted with blended
blood Im not fully sure bears my own,
but my brothers’ for sure. When I
try to lie supine I cant, my hands
tremble unconsciously to grip the hilt-
my body spasms for the blade. I
hear echoes of moon screams, I rub
my chest for arrow tips of Ammon, I
see lifeless bodies everywhere even
the foyer of the palace (a war camp
now), a crazed wolf twitching with
lust for the thrill of the kill and eating
flesh. Im sorry, my King, but I cant
go home, my heart’s still in Rabbah.

-----------------2 Samuel 11:6-15
So David sent this word to Joab: “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” And Joab sent him to David. When Uriah came to him, David asked him how Joab was, how the soldiers were and how the war was going. Then David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” So Uriah left the palace, and a gift from the king was sent after him. But Uriah slept at the entrance to the palace with all his master’s servants and did not go down to his house. David was told, “Uriah did not go home.” So he asked Uriah, “Haven’t you just come from a military campaign? Why didn’t you go home?” Uriah said to David, “The ark and Israel and Judah are staying in tents, and my commander Joab and my lord’s men are camped in the open country. How could I go to my house to eat and drink and make love to my wife? As surely as you live, I will not do such a thing!” Then David said to him, “Stay here one more day, and tomorrow I will send you back.” So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next. At David’s invitation, he ate and drank with him, and David made him drunk. But in the evening Uriah went out to sleep on his mat among his master’s servants; he did not go home. In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah.  In it he wrote, “Put Uriah out in front where the fighting is fiercest. Then withdraw from him so he will be struck down and die.”