[Recent events have reminded me of a poem I wrote almost exactly thirty years ago...}
Note- Mount Moriah was the site where Abraham was told to sacrifice his son Isaac.
MOUNT MORIAH
Troy D. Smith
1989
The fog rolled in from the valley
As I ascended the slate-grey crag
My firstborn lay on an altar
Bedecked in a crimson flag.
For I had heeded the urgings
Of the idols I adore
Who told me to send my firstborn
To the bloodied temple of war
To be poured out, his blood a libation
Upon a solemn, foreign shore.
The God of War has failed me
His promises proven vain
And all the tears of forever
Cannot wash away my pain
Now I stand upon Mount Moriah
Like another father, in days gone by
But that one, I believe, worshipped
A far better God than I.
For I fear I am no Abraham,
And this is no Promised Land,
And War's faithless god sent no angel
To stay the slayer's hand.
Saturday, January 4, 2020
Mount Moriah
Troy D. Smith was born in the Upper Cumberland region of Tennessee in 1968. He has waxed floors, moved furniture, been a lay preacher, and taught high school and college. He writes in a variety of genres, achieving his earliest successes with westerns -his first published short story appeared in 1995 in Louis L'Amour Western Magazine, and he won the Spur Award in 2001 for the novel Bound for the Promise-Land (being a finalist on two other occasions.) He received his PhD in history from the University of Illinois, and is currently teaching history at Tennessee Tech.
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