The Flight To Egypt

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+------The Flight To Egypt; The Angel's Words To Joseph And Mary Fleeing Herod 

Run. Veiled beneath full moon
-cloak, your breath’s exhalation
like the pillar that led Moses
to Canaan, the faith of your
Son the flame, pitter patter of feet
on cold sands to a past life. Let him
see august pyramids built by his
forbearers, an eagle gazing at
hieroglyphs
of worship of bird-gods smirking.
Let him press his ears on
shores of the Nile, hear echoes
of Pharaoh scoffing while
taskmasters beat Hebrews
for lucre. The wailing of orphans
from years of privation.  
For when he comes back
to Jerusalem he will likewise
save his people, not with ten
mortifying plagues but blessed signs,
not followed by flesh groaning
but slave spirits lusting to be free.

------Matthew 2:13-15
When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up,” he said, “take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.” So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night and left for Egypt, where he stayed until the death of Herod. And so was fulfilled what the Lord had said through the prophet: “Out of Egypt I called my son.”