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Chosen Road - a Poem for Rosh HaShanah
By Tad Campbell © 2011. All rights reserved
Promises made between a G-d and His people
The barren shall grow with expectation
pregnant with possibility
a living seed where once there was only human desert
To others Hagar’s son thirsts
unsure if water can be found
But again the L-rd speaks
guides
changing drought to living spring
and a nation drinks in heaven's promise as thirst is quenched
An egg warms beneath the hen’s wing
and so male sons mature beneath the life-giving light
They laugh and wonder
how is it Sarah’s womb once closed
now harvests the child of her dreams
Surely the Creator has heard
as she promises all her son’s days to G-d
And beneath a bush of desolation
another mother finds water to drink
the fountain that now flows through her growing child
Together we are these same children
hungry to know the Eternal
to feel the mystery and the wonder in our own loins
As there grows promise and joy
A hope we have built our nation upon
and a river that ebbs through our numerous veins
There are times we too sit beneath a dry bush
begging to be quenched of the inner hunger
Others giving life to the miracle of being
Bursting with possibility
singing with the eternal
The path we walk
and the road we choose
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from the September 2011 Edition of the Jewish Magazine
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