LEAH AND RACHEL

(An excerpt from Moving Beyond Rejection) Copyright by Pro Type

LEAH AND RACHEL

He left me for the one who was before

He left me because she was offering him more

I gave him my heart

I gave him my life

Yet Leah and I had continuous strife

Jacob, my love, come and lay with me

My soul is crying out  for you

Can’t you hear me

I am alone in my tent waiting for you

I am sad, I feel empty, I feel so blue

Laughter I can hear from the tent next door

I have tried so hard, yet I am unable to give

You more

God have You forgotten to open up my womb

Leah has my lover, my husband and a

Happy home

I can’t bear the pain of this emptiness that

I now feel

Jacob is in Leah’s tent although I know his

Love for me is real

He has left me once again to go to Leah’s tent

Happily Jacob leaves me, as if he was sent

Empty and alone, my heart aches within

My jealousy is so strong, it is an unwanted sin

Rejection has attacked my heart

My mind and my soul

My anger toward Jacob, I can no longer withhold

“Give me children or else I  die!”

Words I said to Jacob because it was my soul’s cry

Years lived in sorrow because Jacob was deceived

Then God finally remembered me

And Joseph I conceived.