Exodus Electra

By Wendy K. Blackburn

brethren beckons you to join along
some miresome tiresome song
but I deny the lie
served to me
and lay me down upon the racque of love's bitter agonies
and you mind me and bind me and shred me thin
but I,
though laid naked and bare
shall prevail and win
though I,
am weak and waning with the moon
the sun is my backbone and JAH is my tune!
Tender this mender shall bring peace to you~
and I,
though I lay a hopeless barren shrew
shall rise again a melody of peace's perfect harmony
and hope's ripened delicacy
Love's bright warm June.
And though I,
I am sightless and bound,
Faith be my braille
and though I,
I am lost though I am found
strong though I am frail,
I shall speak before judges
without a waver in my tongue
and JAH shall sign the pardon~
I shall display all my wicked and wretched deeds
I shall itemize and cartarize my heart's broken needs.
And when JAH ask me,
"Shall I forgive him~
As I have forgiven thee?"
I will turn to your blackness and say,
"Lord set him free!"
and I will humbly fall at your worn and leathered feet
and weep tears of redemption
and cries of defeat.
~And dry your ankles with my tresses and cling to your calves,
and pray JAH stay forever and not saw us in half.
Then~ though I,
I revere you as my sovreign and King,
I shall rises from the ashesof my cremation to sing!
Beloved be my leader my commander and steed!
Show me the white horse the unicorn that freed
us to the heavens~the realm of the soul divine!
A truth of eternal wonders crystaline!
And I shall be your subject
in your kingdom's crown
and I shall be your queen
though my pride I lay down~
and together as one forever
with all infinite curiosities
we shall love the longer
the wonder of free!