Round the Walls of Jericho

I don’t understand why we are doing this

I am warrior, we are trained to fight

But Joshua has us marching round this wall

Ever since first light

Shouldn't we storm the city?

Look the people jeer from the walls!

Anger courses through me

Do they think we are that small?

Shall we not fight back?

What will this walking do?

In absolute silence we march

And waiting for God too

Six days he said we will march

And on the seventh blow our horns

Though I remember he gave water in deserts parched

What good is blowing a horn?

No, this doesn't make sense

I try to tell Joshua so

But he told me to march on

On the Lord’s word we will go

Days pass and the seventh is here

I carefully raise my horn

Together we blow loudly

The loudest since we were born

The next second feels

Like a sound from hell

I feel a rumble and turn around

Oh my God! The wall fell!

May K.