Palimpsest

Yeshuah is a palimpsest
scraped almost clean
a ghost of himself
no one but I
know what he said
or did
only what others say
he said
or did

The witnesses I carefully
eliminated
not one of his followers was there
when he died
not a one
The men had fled
the women were at a distance

The Barrabas episode?
total fabrication
the romans never engaged
in such nonsense
certainly not with the jews
and certainly not Pilate.

Nor would anyone
have had the temerity
to request of Pilate
Pilate!
the release of the body
of a common criminal
he had seen fit
to crucify.

at the end of the day
the body was taken from the cross
and thrown into hinnom
with the rest of the trash.

Dogs ate the corpse.

It was necessary
that I do that
that I might be freed
from my prison
and pursue my revenge
against those
who had imprisoned me

Father of lies
the seeker after smooth things
roman toady
saul

You people will believe
anything

Yeshuah and his brother
James
who was called The Just
the white bird
the fly in my ointment
Beelzebub
lord of the flies

In your modern times
it is called disinformation -
first
eliminate all the witnesses
then
destroy the documentation

who can then gainsay?

So I rewrote history
confabulated
confused
concocted
obfuscated.

Cui Bono?

I could not eliminate all the words
but I could change
the context
the setting
the meaning
use his very words
against him
make of him something
other than he was

A fiercely observant jew
who wanted the people
to return to the proper observance
of the law

He was certainly not
the messiah.
And would be appalled
that anyone
should think him so.

definitely not
antinomian.
And therefore my enemy
but is was not enough to merely destroy him
I also needed to destroy
his teaching.

And I have succeeded
beyond my wildest dreams.

Melchizedek

Melchizedek wanders
the Plain of Night
Blind as Gloucester
Mad as Lear

and this pleases me.

shall I play Edgar,
or Edmund?

Low how the mighty are fallen
you who blessed Avram
whose children
thought to imprison
el shaddai
in that temple
on that mountain

I whom El my father had banished
to that mountain
there in the desert
companion of boredom
Lord of Dust
Entertaining myself
with the voice of thunder
burning bushes
and ignorant shepherds
are easily impressed.

Melchizedek, Priest King
you who came before
it is said
In the beginning there was the word
the logos
and that was you
first begotten of eldest
before that
that afterthought
whom he sent
with the final seal

descendant of David and Solomon
to secure me forever
within the accursed ark

Shall I be the good child
who speaks truth to power
and is condemned
driven from the face of love?
or the evil child
who speaks the lies
his father king wants to hear?
Edmund or Edgar?

Regan, Goneril,
or Cordelia?

Melchezidek
Avram chosen of my father
who sleeps
that you blessed there at the door
the gate of the kingdom
how it pleased me
to drive you out
and steal your sight.

father has forgotten you.

but I have not.