The Skeletons We Must Leave Behind

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+--------The Skeletons We Must Leave Behind; Ruth's Oath Of Loyalty To Naomi

Mom there are skeletons
all around  us, in fact, before
you, your sons hasted to Moab my
hope was long since buried, all
my dreams interred in black
catacombs. A dirge for meaningful
life, I would cry myself to sleep,
a wolf howling at the starless sky
a fortnight without food. You see, my
people are beholden to Chemosh,
they sacrifice babies to flames, they
sell little girls for sex profit, there
are no female entrepreneurs,
no breasts with dignity. Your
God, through the respect you’ve
shown makes me believe
in love, life again. From now on,
where you go, I will go and where
you die I will die. I will not be denied.
I want to live. I will go to Bethlehem.


------Ruth 1:3-18
And Elimelech Naomi's husband died; and she was left, and her two sons. And they took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they dwelled there about ten years. And Mahlon and Chilion died also both of them; and the woman was left of her two sons and her husband. Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the Lord had visited his people in giving them bread. Wherefore she went forth out of the place where she was, and her two daughters in law with her; and they went on the way to return unto the land of Judah. And Naomi said unto her two daughters in law, Go, return each to her mother's house: the Lord deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me. The Lord grant you that ye may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them; and they lifted up their voice, and wept. And they said unto her, Surely we will return with thee unto thy people. And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters: why will ye go with me? are there yet any more sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands? Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have an husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should have an husband also to night, and should also bear sons; Would ye tarry for them till they were grown? would ye stay for them from having husbands? nay, my daughters; for it grieveth me much for your sakes that the hand of the Lord is gone out against me. And they lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother in law; but Ruth clave unto her.
And she said, Behold, thy sister in law is gone back unto her people, and unto her gods: return thou after thy sister in law. And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the Lord do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me. When she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go with her, then she left speaking unto her.