Whom do I trust?

After Isaiah 28

It’s a question, not just

for then but also for now:

whom do I trust when

contemporary Assyrians

stand before the gates,

screaming their taunts,

their threats, showing evidence

of cruelty impaled on posts

and waved in front of us?

Whom do I trust when

barbarians shred our fabrics,

tear at our ropes, desecrate

our readings, our books, the words

we live by? Where do we find

our Egyptians to save us, to come

to our rescue, to deliver us?

Where can we find our Egyptians

when there are no Egyptians?

Photograph by Dawn Hudson via Public Domain Pictures. Used with permission.