vayishlach

to Esau, Jacob's no longer a threat

repute and wealth he's built with his own hands

so when on Jabbok's riverbank they met

they're reconciled, each claiming his own lands

it's Jacob that must wrestle in the night

becoming what he wasn't heretofore

to justify his claim to the birthright

the sequence flipped from that in which they're born

Edom surrounds himself with men-at-arms

while Jacob still does his best work in bed

instead of hunting, he tends flocks and farms

and leaves the football parties to Big Red

Vayishlach foresees each living apart

two brothers in two lands, 'though one in heart