Troubled by his dream,
a king asks the help
pf the best and brightest,
who fail.
Facing certain death,
one man, only one,
asks for prayer, and
prays himself.
A king turns to counselors
and magicians, who read
the tea leaves and extend
a wet finer into the wind.
A wise man turns to God.
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Asked (or ordered)
to describe the dream
of another, they ask
the obvious: tell us
what it was.
Asked to describe
the dream of another,
only one didn’t ask
the obvious. Instead,
he prayed, knowing
any guess would be
wrong, knowing tricks
or stratagems would be
useless.
Instead, he prayed.
He asked for what
he could not do
within himself. And
he was given the vision
of the dream.
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The king, more than
troubled by a dream;
the king, frightened.
scared, terrified
by a dream. Wise men
summoned, not only
to interpret and explain,
but to describe the dream
(the king knew his servants,
his magicians, his sorcerers,
his enchanters). Wise men
fail, and wise men die.
One man, renamed
Belteshazzar, prayed.
The dream revealed,
the man praised
the revealer.
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