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Abraham

Posted by ezeani chris on 11/13/2011 8:05:58 AM |

Written by: ezeani chris


         


     

ABRAHAM

 

 

I will tell you

a tale of flesh and

spirit mixed,

angels, mighty feats

and a rhyme

to make it sweet.

I will take you,

east,

through desert roads

to a land now called

Egypt;

in the time of Pharoahs,

when Abraham

his tent pitched.

 

Indeed,

like the sands of the desert floor,

large already was

Abraham's store

at this time
in men, in maidens fine
in livestock, and in wine.
To him was wed,
Sarai,
a woman exceedingly beautiful to the eye.
It seemed,
that on all his 
endeavours
had fortune smiled
except in this,
he had no child.
A promise from God
he had recieved,
of descendants as the
stars,
Abraham hearing, believed,
and thus fufilled his part.
He was an hundred at this time,
twenty-five years had
he journeyed in this land
of sand and sunshine.

As it is now,
so it was
in times past.
The angels of the Lord,
bearing gifts or
word of advice
would walk in our world
as a human might.
Abraham,
having eyes that see,
saw men from afar of
and perci