va'era

behind the Wilderness, Moshe kept sheep
a fugitive from Egypt and blood-debt
but now, there loomed the debt he'd have to keep
God keeps accounts, 'though pharaohs may forget
an age untold, the humble thornbush burned
with no observer to attest it's real
but now, this princely shepherd saw, and turned
in awe, but hoping to demur this deal
reluctant prophet, sick with palace life
whose Hebrew was a tongue of last resort
commissioned to abandon son, and wife
and spend his days petitioning at court
epiphany complete, he dons his shoes
and undertakes to liberate the Jews