David was walking about on the roof,
and he saw a woman bathing;
the woman was very beautiful,
Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah the Hittite.
David sent messengers to get her,
and she came to him, and he lay with her.
—2 Samuel 11.2-4
David, up on the roof, knows he has power over,
and doesn’t know.
The crown has a mind of its own.
He who wears it can’t see how it uses him.
As the king rules the horse,
the crown rules the king.
Bathsheba, powerless, is used, and knows it,
though Uriah will not not survive to know.
David knows, but is blind
to the power power has over him.
Beware the man
who is not protected from his own power.
—July 26, 2018