this man

haYetzer Rah led  David off the path
a lusty king whose ethics sometimes bent
but Nathan hit him with the heavens' wrath
and he was man enough to then repent
a funny sort of model sages paint
imperfect in his all-too-human ways
the best of kings was plainly not a saint
his good and bad in equal parts displayed
Uriah's gone; he's most sincerely dead
while David's held up as a paragon
a heinous crime expunged from off his head
(but chaos does ensue among his sons)
how like a god, discerning wrong from right
how like a child, in terror of the night