Joseph’s song for Asenath

Pharoah gave Joseph in marriage to Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, a priest of On. (Genesis 41 verse 45).

Here is one more song about our moon –

Its fullness depends on another orb’s light

Here is a new song about the moon

Showing the same face through billions of nights.

 

One upon a time in June’s late darkness

I crept to the fields, ran naked and reckless

In a night when no-one could catch me –

in the moonlight I felt I was free.

 

The stars and the corn did not bow down

But they winked in the clouds and the breeze.

And their loneliness reassured me.

 

Thirty years after my unnoticed race

I’m wrapped in a coat and consolation.

My Love comes to me she does not question –

The moonlight shines full on her face.

 

The stars and the corn do not bow down

But they wink in the clouds and the breeze

And their loneliness reassures me.

 

This is one more song about our moon –

Its fullness depends on another orb’s light

Here is a new song about the moon

Showing the same side through billions of nights.

 

The stars and the corn will not bow down

But they’ll wink in the clouds and the breeze.

And my loneliness is part of me

So Love come sit beside me.

 

2011