Two stone tablets, given to Moses on the Sinai/Horeb mount

The Decalogue, ten commandments in God’s law was the count

“Thou shalts” addressing sinful thoughts/actions for humankind

Literally handed over by a human-image God as some may find

Brought downto the people and broken due to their sinful ways

Would these commands live on past those ancient wilderness days?

Etched words carried about in the arc, generation after generation

Literal history, figurative legend, maybe some other comprehension?

Ten reasonable, Christ-like ways for people relationally seeking God

A code of conduct you can’t reject, to protest would be rather odd

A way of living so in keeping with a guiding God-given conscience

Love, compassion, respect — qualities that make reasonable sense

Whether God literally wrote those words on the placards of stone

Whether humans authored them as God-inspired — can I be shown?

It was later that God etched a prime commandment on our hearts

Jesus saying to love one another as God loves us — where it starts!