I Am Joseph

Really? Yes I am! The one with the coat of many colours. My parents got me a Coat of many colours when I was very little, I mean during the age of innocence, the time of ignorance. I wore my coat around, I wore it everywhere, I did not think much of it, to be honest I didn’t think about it at all. It was just a piece of garment you wore, atimes I didn’t even like it much, as it made me hot, but when the weather is cool, it serves its purpose, sometimes I wear it to sleep, as I am too tired and I forget to take it off.

Whilst I was sleeping, unbeknownst to me the storm was brewing, resentment, envy, jealousy and hatred was festering. I woke up like a baby, well rested and blissful ready to tackle the day, can’t say I didn’t dream while I was sleeping, we all dream, don’t we? Did I tell anyone my dreams? I don’t know, I probably did, innocently of course and then the mob rounded me up, bewildered and confused, I wondered what I had done wrong. I tried to explain, to reason with them, to understand where they were coming from, I tried to explain that they got the wrong person. But oh know, I was very much the right person, the one with the Coat of many colours, the only one with the coat! Nothing I did was right, nothing I said resonated. I had the coat and I could never be right. I tried taking off the coat, but it was too late. I had been the one with the Coat of many colours for so long, taking it off makes no difference, Joseph I am and Joseph I will always be.

With sadness in my heart, tears in my eyes, but yet with a straight back and square shoulders I moved away from the mob. I could never please them. Joseph I was born, Joseph I will always be, I make no excuse, no apologies, it is my birthright, it is my inheritance, it is me heritage. It is my Coat of many colours and with pride and appreciation I continue to wear my Coat.

In the fulness of time, I shall become Vizier to Pharoah and I shall help my people, I shall do that which I am called and ordained to do. This is my dream, it shall rile them. But Joseph is my name, I dream dreams and they come to pass, Joseph I will always be, as I wrap my coat snuggly around my body.

I am Joseph!