Hi everyone, I came across a poem written by a Christian called Azure and wanted to share it on my blog. I thought that It was such a striking poem when I read it I thought that it was in the Holy Bible and went to look for it and never found it and then realised somebody had written this themselves. I like to write poetry myself at times, but I did not write this. Tamar was raped by her half brother Ammon and this poem tries to reflect on how Tamar may have felt after this event. To me this poem speaks true as even though somebody can forgive someone, sometimes the abuse and memories can be left on somebody's body in their nerves and on their skin.
This poem is based on (2 Samuel 13).
TamarMuffled whispers peal,
though they think I do not hear.
Yet none dare speak up,
far less do I.
Oh, that I might wish to die.
The day is spent.
I wait,
for time to turn back its hand,
though I know it will not.
Might I have saved my life?
Oh, that he would remember me.
The colourless horizon stretches,
like the coming days,
I will surely know.
Still it rains; still the skies are grey,
as I wish I were,
that he had never
looked upon me.
Wool mockingly adorns,
clinging where love
now never will.
My skin remembers,
though my heart tries not.
Fine linen, colour, hope.
Torn and discarded,
even as I am.
Even my body knows,
this does not belong to me.
I scratch at my wrists,
where linen once brushed its lips.
Where I was held,
gripped,
tight.
Moody clouds brood,
in this darkened sconce.
He skulks — eyes black,vacant.
He comes and goes,
though I stay.
Always, I stay.
He shouts into the bleak,
with fitful sleep.
And daybreak persists,
of which I choose no part.
Rays bleed into darkness
As silence
continues,
with her testimony.
Footnote - Poem is based on the defilement of Tamar by her half brother and the aftermath for HER which is not depicted in Scripture. It is based on a Biblical narrative of one of King David’s daughters, who disappeared from Scripture after the incident took place.
