The Last Words Of Moses (Atop Pisgah) #IamMoses

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+------The Last Words Of Moses (Atop Pisgah) 

I remember the last glimpses
of my mother’s face now,
anguished, glowing nimbus of
a Levite wife atop her head, hair
wrapped in the tattered turban of
my father to disguise herself as man,
feet tracing the edge of the bank
of the Nile. A baby. Interlacing walls
of my wicker basket dissipating some
noise of its current rushing,
disembodied screams of
the collective conscience of all
enslaved Hebrews. Her last
words “when you think of Freedom,
I am always with you…” (Miriam
watching us). And now this: Egypt’s
Exodus, Pharaoh drowned, the apex
of our dreams, vistas of Canaan for
my people to colonize. I close my eyes.
I think…I hear footsteps of my Mom.

------Deuteronomy 34:1-8
Then Moses climbed Mount Nebo from the plains of Moab to the top of Pisgah, across from Jericho. There the Lord showed him the whole land—from Gilead to Dan, all of Naphtali, the territory of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the Mediterranean Sea, the Negev and the whole region from the Valley of Jericho, the City of Palms, as far as Zoar. Then the Lord said to him, “This is the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob when I said, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’ I have let you see it with your eyes, but you will not cross over into it.” And Moses the servant of the Lord died there in Moab, as the Lord had said. He buried him in Moab, in the valley opposite Beth Peor, but to this day no one knows where his grave is. Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyes were not weak nor his strength gone. The Israelites grieved for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days, until the time of weeping and mourning was over.