vayera

"I see the knife and fire, but where's the ram?"
a third day hiking in the countryside
Yitzhak made inquiry of his old man
who'd just told the house servants to abide
what transpired on the mountain-top's obscure
to Abraham, God never spoke again
how can a revelation be quite sure
transmitted through uncertain ears of men
the countermand was urgent, uttered twice
while the command to offer only once
the son and father risked an awful price
but spoke no syllable of remonstrance
to Muslims, it's submission to God's will
to Jews, an un-ingestible horse-pill