Covenants

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+------Covenants; The Thoughts Of Abram  Entranced

At my age, Ive run
from this for some time: fear
of a failed legacy (the fear of
all men), foreboding, debilitating. This
complete darkness like a phantom,
thick and burly, half-raven/half-angel,
cawing. Seizing my neck violently
while I’m asleep with no heir. My
life’s regrets like the slaughtered:
a heifer, goat and a ram
I halved and set apart bloody
for paranoia’s birds of prey.
And now more than ever I need
God. His mercy - a smoking
firepot with hope’s torch ablaze
to pass between the bodies; Honoring
Noah I wont cleave dove or pigeon.
Like him, I have improbable faith
in my cursed world regenerated.

------Genesis 15:4-21
Then the word of the Lord came to him: “This man will not be your heir, but a son who is your own flesh and blood will be your heir.” He took him outside and said, “Look up at the sky and count the stars—if indeed you can count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring[d] be.” Abram believed the Lord, and he credited it to him as righteousness. He also said to him, “I am the Lord, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to take possession of it.” But Abram said, “Sovereign Lord, how can I know that I will gain possession of it?” So the Lord said to him, “Bring me a heifer, a goat and a ram, each three years old, along with a dove and a young pigeon.” Abram brought all these to him, cut them in two and arranged the halves opposite each other; the birds, however, he did not cut in half. Then birds of prey came down on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away. As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and a thick and dreadful darkness came over him. Then the Lord said to him, “Know for certain that for four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved and mistreated there. But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great possessions. You, however, will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age. In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.” When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, a smoking firepot with a blazing torch appeared and passed between the pieces. On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram and said, “To your descendants I give this land, from the Wadi of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates— the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites.”