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| 1 | --- | ||
| 2 | title: The angel to Abraham | ||
| 3 | genre: verse | ||
| 4 | |||
| 5 | id: angeltoabraham | ||
| 6 | toc: "The angel to Abraham" | ||
| 7 | |||
| 8 | ekphrastic: | ||
| 9 | image: "Sacrifice_of_Isaac-Caravaggio.jpg" | ||
| 10 | title: "Abraham, Abraham!" | ||
| 11 | link: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham#/media/File:Sacrifice_of_Isaac-Caravaggio_%28Uffizi%29.jpg" | ||
| 12 | |||
| 13 | project: | ||
| 14 | title: Elegies for alternate selves | ||
| 15 | class: elegies | ||
| 16 | order: 10 | ||
| 17 | prev: | ||
| 18 | - title: Dead man | ||
| 19 | link: deadman | ||
| 20 | next: | ||
| 21 | - title: Feeding the raven | ||
| 22 | link: feedingtheraven | ||
| 23 | ... | ||
| 24 | |||
| 25 | | Abraham, Abraham, you are old and cannot hear: | ||
| 26 | | what if you miss my small voice amongst the creaking | ||
| 27 | | of your own grief, kill your son unknowing | ||
| 28 | | of what he will be, and commit Israel to nothing? | ||
| 29 | |||
| 30 | | Abraham, you must know or hope that [God][] | ||
| 31 | | will not allow your son to die; you must know | ||
| 32 | | that this is a test, but then why | ||
| 33 | | are you so bent on Isaac's destruction? | ||
| 34 | | Look at your eyes; there is more than fear | ||
| 35 | | there. I see in your eyes desperation, | ||
| 36 | | a manic passion to do right by your God | ||
| 37 | | whom you are not able to see or know. | ||
| 38 | |||
| 39 | | Am I too late? I [will try][] to stay | ||
| 40 | | your old hands, the knife clenched | ||
| 41 | | within them, intent on ending life. | ||
| 42 | |||
| 43 | | Will you hear my small voice amongst the creaking, | ||
| 44 | | or will it be the chance bleating of a passing ram? | ||
| 45 | |||
| 46 | [God]: boar.html | ||
| 47 | [will try]: i-am.html | ||