Mimshak

Mimshak* by Rick Folker As the Lord lives, it must be the Lord himself who will strike him, whether the time comes for him to die, or he goes out and perishes in battle. But the Lord forbid that I touch his anointed. 1 Samuel 26:5-25 David’s “honorable” moment Is often forgotten in our Death-obsessed culture Where blood-soaked remnants Of gang murders And innocent prisoners Whose lives are wasted With swords quite less forgiving With David’s sword so close To the head of Saul So close to injecting the lethal Dose So easy to sentence another to Death row … David’s spear poised for the final blow So easily to dispatch the Hoody-wearing teen A town in Florida replays The drama at Zilph Abishai urging the destruction Of the fugitive’s enemy and A frightened gun with such an easy shot Can’t you hear General Abishai now? “What fortune, God has delivered the Enemy to us - JUST DO IT! David more than hesitates He defends the “anointed of God” “But the Lord forbid that I touch his anointed” Thereby anointing all of us who Just might forget … That God (and only God) anoints And that the same God both gives And takes what we should never Presume is our “right” to do what Only David says the Lord is allowed To do That spear of vengeance and hate Through the head of Saul or Treyvon Or Iraqi children or Syrian tyrants or the Many lost souls walking that last “green mile” Are they not God’s anointed too? By Rick Folker *Hebrew for ‘anointed”