had Potiphar believed what his wife said
the story would have ended, then and there
far worse than prison, Yosef would be dead
for such an extra-marital affair
instead, he fell to rise to greater heights
new clothes, new name and an Egyptian wife
and if he practiced private, foreign rites
he owed the Pharaoh everything in life
well-placed to help his brothers in a bind
although they thought him safely in his grave
to test their mettle, he let them stay blind
until he deemed them changed enough to save
Yehudah'd done teshuvah as a man
who'd sold him to that passing caravan
the story would have ended, then and there
far worse than prison, Yosef would be dead
for such an extra-marital affair
instead, he fell to rise to greater heights
new clothes, new name and an Egyptian wife
and if he practiced private, foreign rites
he owed the Pharaoh everything in life
well-placed to help his brothers in a bind
although they thought him safely in his grave
to test their mettle, he let them stay blind
until he deemed them changed enough to save
Yehudah'd done teshuvah as a man
who'd sold him to that passing caravan
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