Pharaoh chose the blue pill,
His choice should have been “red”;
Choosing to refuse
The G-d of the Hebrews
Lost his whole empire, instead.
Pharaoh’s crown featured Uraeus,
The cobra in attack;
Egypt’s dark forces supernal
Occult powers demoniac.
With Hashem’s first three signs
Pharaoh’s pride,
Only made him scoff.
The next four
Leveling Egypt
Were harder to write off.
Fire and ice, working in concert,
Astounding, the Barad
Physics void, Egypt destroyed,
Clearly, the hand of G-d,
How could these wonders, manifest,
Leave Pharaoh unimpressed?!
Clinging to the status quo
While plummeting to ground zero.
Moshe didn’t choose
The red pill of upheaval,
But he didn’t turn away
When he saw evil;
When he matured,
Something came over him:
Moshe was willing
To go out on a limb,
Walked with his brethren,
Weltering in blood,
Felt their pain,
Shared their burdens
In sweat and mud,
Interceded, stayed the murderous
Mitzri’s hand,
Struck him dead
And buried him in the sand.
Israel has lost thousands
To terrorism,
As the government bows
To world opinion.
In Judea and Samaria,
The Hilltop Youth
Are devoted to the land,
They live Hashem’s truth,
Off limits,
The justly won, liberated lands
Given into our enemies’ hands,
The enemy infusing them by degrees
In perspicuous attack strategies.
When a Jew was murdered,
It was the Jews who were evicted,
Terrorism rewarded,
As predicted,
Betrayed by their country,
Men, women, and children,
Collateral damage,
Israel’s decent citizens,
Leaders ensconced
In your ivory towers,
Selling out your own people
To stay in power.
Pharaohs, emperors,
Prime ministers and kings:
Do you really think you’re running things?
The blue pill feels safe,
Secure and benign,
But beware,
It runs on borrowed time.
The red pill
Is the difficult choice,
But listen to that inner voice;
More great signs and wonders
Are yet to come,
When HaKadosh Baruch Hu’s
Word and Israel’s law
Become one!
By Sharon Marcus