Ruth's Choice
Ruth’s Choice
Crossroads on a maize and dusty colored road –
Sorrowing eyes look past
Golden days into eyes of tears –
Grieving –
Words swallowed go unspoken
Choices for daughters,
Not born of the same womb,
From a daughter brought here by hunger -
Called now to return
By a well-worn path
To hills of olive trees -
Remain or leave to travel
Where barley fields
Flow with kinsmen’s voices
As the season lifts your hair of cooper fire;
A blessing on the road releases
Silken bonds and wedding vows –
Yet a pledge of faithfulness
Rejoins two hearts to walk together
While one heart, divided by tears, remains
Carrying pictures of these faces
Painted forever in this monument of memory
Pondering the unknown road
Disappearing into a shimmering morning;
This road remembers empty barns –
The way back to the hillsides –
Back to the beginning
Reunited
With faces wearing delight and compassion
To encircle sojourners
Carrying sheaves of retrospection
To plant among the seeds
Of harvest that never left
This soil;
Gather now and glean –
In humble steps behind the harvesters
Then sleep upon the threshing floor
Where love reignites sowing
Seeds in a field left fallow
So an honored name not disappear
As wind blows through the grain
And sings of sons
To change the world.
Copyright © Sam Kauffman | Year Posted 2020
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