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# Moses' Lament
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/moses-lament/
- Published: 2021-12-15T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-12-15T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: caught in the machinery of heaven staring at my loaf that wouldn't leaven why God, after being their good warden can't I gain the Promised Land through Jordan can't live in the land of milk and honey David's name, not...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

caught in the machinery of heaven  
staring at my loaf that wouldn't leaven  
why God, after being their good warden  
can't I gain the Promised Land through Jordan  
can't live in the land of milk and honey  
David's name, not mine, on their coined money  
wasn't forty years of service plenty  
wasn't pharaoh's son as good as any  
sacrifice I made, but you Lord, know it  
there's a Michelangelo to show it  
even there, young David beat me at it  
it's his song they sing, and me, I've had it

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**Author notes:** https://allpoetry.com/contest/2795188-The-Machinery