Genesis: Chapter Nine

Noah and his sons did God richly bless

One thing he really wanted to impress

Go out, don’t slumber and don’t you cry

Be fruitful, increase yes, multiply

From now all the animals and all the beasts

They will fear you as a threat, as you see them as meat

They will not be looking at you and thinking the best

No, rather, around you they will never rest

The birds in the sky, the fish in the sea

All the creeping animals that you can see

All of these into your hands will be

Everything and anything for you will be food

Just like the plants, they be just as good

You now have it all

From the great to the small

But you must not be eating any meat

Where the blood of life gives a beat

For your own blood I will demand a reckoning

This is a demand not a beckoning

This accounting is for every animal

For anything abnormal to abysmal

And this a demand to all humans as well

I demand an account for every human life you fell

Whoever takes human blood

Will be dragged through metaphorical mud

If there is someone else’s life you have acquired

Your life in response will be required

For God created man in his own image

There is in him completely no damage

I tell you again where I want you to commit

Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, increase upon it

Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons

I’m telling you now you are the ones

I establish with you a covenant

I want you to be supplicant, not live in puzzlement

So pass it on to your descendants

All of those who are your dependants

And not just them, but to all the animals on the ark

From those who roar and hiss to those that bark

So I tell you my covenant now

I know you are wondering what is the how

Never again will all life be destroyed by a flood

Never again will the earth be submerged in water and mud

And so to mark our covenant I leave you a sign

For you, for all creatures with you, for people of all time

The sign of the covenant between the earth and me

Well this is what it will be

In the clouds, a rainbow a multi-coloured arc

Reminding you of the flood, and the ark

Whenever this rainbow in the sky does appear

You can live in comfort and not fear

For you know that when I see it I will remember

The covenant we have together, this is my endeavour

So God summarised all this to his main man Noah

This is, in our composition., the ultimate coda

So the three children of Noah, we tell you again

Were Shem, Ham and Japheth all of them men

(The father of Canaan was the one named Ham

This is just a little fact, not a piece of spam.)

To them many descendants were given birth

They were the people who were scattered all over the earth

So Noah who by natural trade was a man of the soil

Did not allow time to be his foil

Straight way he planted himself a vineyard

Got himself some wine and drank without regard

He got himself totally wiped out drunk

As drunk as that proverbial skunk

And so was lying in his abode

Sans all clothes, not even a robe

Ham, Canaan’s old man, had a good look and to his bro’s he did pander

Hey dad’s all stark naked go and take a gander!

Shem and Japheth were not so delirious

They were far more serious

To their father Noah they were in fact salubrious

They grabbed a piece of cloth

And avoided their father’s wrath

They walked in backwards and covered him

Their faces turned away, not acting on any whim

They did not see their father naked

To him this was against everything sacred

When Noah awoke from his drunken slumber

He found out what Ham had done and was filled with thunder

Cursed be Canaan his voice did roar

He is the one I hereby deplore

Amongst his brothers he will be the lowest slave

In him there is nothing that is brave

And then he had more things to say

Nothing was going to stop him on this day

Praise be to the Lord, the God of Shem

For his descendants, may Canaan be a slave to them

And as for Japheth, may God increase his land

Guiding him by his mighty hand

May Japheth live in the tents of Shem

And may Canaan be the slave of them

After the time of the flood had passed

Noah lived on and 350 more years were amassed

Then after a grand total of 950 years in all

Like the way of all men to death he did fall