B04 God Calls Moses Poem by Simple Simon

One day, Moses led his flock
Across desert and the rock,
And reached but a holy place,
The Sarai Mount, all by chance.

In the form of a flame,
Thereupon the Lord came,
In the middle of a bush,
But not burning the bush!

'This is strange, ' he thought,
'How can a flame red-hot
Not burn a bush a bit?
Let me go and see it.'

When he was going closer,
God said, 'Don't come nearer,
Go and take off your sandals
As this place is for Angels.'

'I'm the God of Abraham,
I promised to save him
And his descendants too;
A covenant, we entered into.'

'I see now how my people
Face misery, the most cruel,
In the land of the Nile-Egypt,
Wherefrom, I hear them cry out.'

'I want to rescue them;
So, here I've come.
Go to the King of Egypt
And lead my people out.'

'I'll give my people
A land, rich and fertile;
A better spacious one
Peacefully to live in.'

But Moses said, 'I'm
Nobody to go near him.
How can I bring them?
Will he listen to me?

God said, 'With you I'm.
Now go and talk to him.
When you bring them out,
Then, you'll have no doubt.'

'You'll, in this holy mountain,
Worship me for certain.
This will be the proof,
That'll add to your belief.'

Moses asked, 'What can I tell them,
When they ask for Your name? '
God answered, 'Tell them
The name, 'I am who I am.'

'Tell them, I'm the Lord,
And their ancestors' God,
Who heard their prayer,
And to rescue them, I'm here.'

'Tell them, I'll take them out
From the land of Egypt,
Where they're treated cruelly,
To a peaceful land permanently.'

'My people will surely listen,
As, by now, they've learnt a lesson.
Then tell the king of Egypt,
That Hebrews' God, you'd met.'

'That for a sacrifice in the desert,
You're taking them as an escort.
I know, he'll not let you go,
Unless he is forced to do so.'

'But I'll use my power,
Just to make him shiver.
Then he'll be forced to yield,
And relieve them from the field.'

'I'll make the Egyptians pay
Respect to you from this day.
But I'll not let them a go-free;
My follow-up action, they'll see.'

'You'll see all Israelite women
Take from Egyptian women,
Clothing, gold, and silver, they need
For sons and daughters and be freed.'

'The Israelites will carry away
The wealth of Egyptians, one day.
For the Egyptian's cruel treatment,
They'll suffer this punishment