The Passover

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+------The Passover; Moses's Thoughts Waiting For The Angel Of Death To Walk By

When I was a boy, my
“father”, would speak to us
of his apotheosis after death.
To live among stars, his smile
a glimmer within constellations.
A distinction of Pharaohs with
a life’s worth of righteous living. 
(Now a Hebrew’s irony) A glory he
wished to pass to his sons. One day.
And now this – the dead of night,
a moon beaming fully, augustly,
a just cosmic judge presiding
over it all. My wife trembling beside
me refusing to let go; Blood of
lambs from a basin smeared
on our tent’s doorposts with
hyssop leaves. We swear we
hear the thunder of a stampede
approaching, the most morbid
whistling, cold winds in summer from
a scythe swung spastically for all
Egypt’s firstborn males. The Angel
of Death is coming.


------Exodus 12:21-30
Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go at once and select the animals for your families and slaughter the Passover lamb. Take a bunch of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin and put some of the blood on the top and on both sides of the doorframe. None of you shall go out of the door of your house until morning. When the Lord goes through the land to strike down the Egyptians, he will see the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe and will pass over that doorway, and he will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down. “Obey these instructions as a lasting ordinance for you and your descendants. When you enter the land that the Lord will give you as he promised, observe this ceremony. And when your children ask you, ‘What does this ceremony mean to you?’ then tell them, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the Lord, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt and spared our homes when he struck down the Egyptians.’” Then the people bowed down and worshiped. The Israelites did just what the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron. At midnight the Lord struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on the throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner, who was in the dungeon, and the firstborn of all the livestock as well. Pharaoh and all his officials and all the Egyptians got up during the night, and there was loud wailing in Egypt, for there was not a house without someone dead.