Bathsheba by Robert Thiessen

Bathsheba by Jean Leon Gerome, 1888.

BATHSHEBA

beautiful
vulnerable
hijacked
abused
afflicted


URIAH

honourable
disciplined
faithful
loyal
selfless
betrayed
deceived
manipulated
murdered


DAVID

lazy
lustful
abusive
manipulative
adulterer
approached
self righteous
confronted
convicted
afflicted
repented
confessed
supplicated
forgiven
praised
proclaimed

Robert Thiessen

This poem was written for the 20 Poem Challenge.

Robert Thiessen worked at General Motors for forty years, most recently as a millwright, and is now retired. His works for the 20 Poem Challenge are more or less his first poems.