Covenant Poem by shimon weinroth

Covenant



the most fragile concept I know is a promise,
social contract, human beings are capable of
even God had difficulty keeping the covenant

Abraham reminded his Lord, Jacob fought with
his angel, Moses remonstrated and disobeyed
a promise is a promise made to be kept,
The 'Ancient Mariner' relates of vows.

a marriage is a contract, killing the albatross
is not just bad luck, breaking a covenant,
undoing a promise, defaulting on a promissary note
tear down the pillars of the social polis

I depend on you, rely on him, a responsibility
important as love,
if not, tear up the deed to social belief,
let chaos reign, anti matter rule the heavens,

a new physics of unjust, unseat all laws,
I for one, can not reman stoic, in such a light
war, rape, pillage, return us to the
prehistoric, to the time of the animal kingdom

incapable of neither, making nor keeping a promise,
brought on floods to cleanse the planet

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Ellie Sutton 31 August 2008

And then he sent the one person able to keep a promise. I really like this :)

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