Ahab And Jezebel

There beneath the sun, moon and stars
Beneath the very eyes of God himself.
Lay a valley rich in beauty, favored by nature
The birth place of all we hold good and sacred.


Across this fertile valley, an eminent white flower
A powerful vine clinging tenaciously to everything.
Exalted king of flowers standing tall for all to see
The breath of the land, Ahab--the flower of Israel.


But where the shadows fall and goodness is clouded
Stands a poison Venus that is rose--captivating him.
Thorns run her stem like scales upon a green dragon
The great instigator of persecution--captivating him.


Behold the Jezebel flower, Phoenician princess
Painted petals of untold beauty, whore of Baal.
A fragrance so beguiling to all, especially for Ahab
This flower exacts a deadly price that Ahab shall pay.


Married, they now come together in a field of love and lust
Each exacting tolls upon one another and the valley as well.
His filament long and hard, her stigma wet and sticky-sweet
His anther swollen with pollen, Ahab pushes her petals back.
Jezebel thrusts her sepals forward in rhythm
Ahab pounds his stamen deep inside her style.
Her ovules receive his pollen and become seeds
These are the seeds of future kings and queens.


Jezebel's poison is precise and untelling within the kingdom
Ahab allies himself with her darkness and incisive intellect.
Yet war is a constant for the king of Jezreel
And in the battle of Ramoth-Gillead, Ahab falls.


The remnants of what he was lay upon this land
Dried, decayed, twisted and laced within the rocks.
And now begins a cruel and malicious rule
Long live the queen and her sons as kings!


Over the horizon comes an angry storm, swallowing up the ground
A magnificent warrior--a hero to some, a nightmare to others!
He flows across the valley unchallenged and strikes down Jezebel
The strumpet-flower is then cut up and the pieces trampled upon.


He then destroys all the seeds of iniquity and impurity
The royal descendents are beheaded, a valley wiped clean.
He rids the land of the evil that had befallen it
Behold his presence, the great blue flower, Jehu!


And the fertile valley was made pure again.