Ruth. Part 1.

Haiku to set up the story

A protest story.

Ruth, the faithful foreigner,

wife par excellence!

The story’s set up

with famine, and a welcome

in a foreign land.

The Hebrew brothers

marry local Moab girls,

then all the blokes die.

Widow Naomi

heads back home. Daughters-in-law

Ruth, Orpah, go too.

Naomi says: Go

back girls; and find new husbands

among your people.

My lot is bitter,

God has turned his back on me,

I have no future.

Orpah kissed good-bye.

Naomi commanded Ruth

to also return.

Don’t make me leave you,

said Ruth. Where you go, I go;

where you stay, I stay.

Your people are mine;

your God will be my God too.

Where you die, I die.

Death itself shall not

part me from you! Naomi

accepted Ruth's choice.

© Ken Rookes 2024