A King's Dreams

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+------A King's Dreams;  David's Thoughts As He Ran  Toward Goliath To Fight

Years ago I'd startle my flock, my
flailing arms battering them from
stasis, rustling leaves speckled
onto the pasture by night winds;
Beneath the (destined) stars
dreaming: Disembodied
fangs’d circle above me
then swoop, I’d hear crescendos
of growling before
waking in a defensive stance surly.
So now this: the mighty men
of Israel bleating. Timid and courage-
sheered sheep before a huge Philistine
profane. …..Ive killed lion, bear
for intimating things much worse.
My robe-sleeves are frayed, collar
smeared with dried offenders' blood. And
…Ive slung rocks at trees howling at
the moon for a time like this- When
a forgotten debased shepherd boy
leaves sheepfold for throne. A Giant's
head mounted on my foyer wall. Forever.

------1 Samuel 17:20-27
Early in the morning David left the flock in the care of a shepherd, loaded up and set out, as Jesse had directed. He reached the camp as the army was going out to its battle positions, shouting the war cry. Israel and the Philistines were drawing up their lines facing each other. David left his things with the keeper of supplies, ran to the battle lines and asked his brothers how they were. As he was talking with them, Goliath, the Philistine champion from Gath, stepped out from his lines and shouted his usual defiance, and David heard it. Whenever the Israelites saw the man, they all fled from him in great fear. Now the Israelites had been saying, “Do you see how this man keeps coming out? He comes out to defy Israel. The king will give great wealth to the man who kills him. He will also give him his daughter in marriage and will exempt his family from taxes in Israel.” David asked the men standing near him, “What will be done for the man who kills this Philistine and removes this disgrace from Israel? Who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God?”
They repeated to him what they had been saying and told him, “This is what will be done for the man who kills him.