by Megan McDermott
I envy your decisiveness,
your extremity of language
and love.
Life gives me “either.”
Life gives me “or.”
And I must become a scale,
arms wavering with the weight
of two paths.
You decide from conviction
while I follow the road that falls first.
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“Where you die, I will die…May the Lord do thus and so to me, and more as well, if even death parts me from you!” – Ruth 1:17 (NRSV)
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Megan McDermott is the author of chapbooks Prayer Book for Contemporary Dating and Woman as Communion, as well as a forthcoming full-length collection Jesus Merch: A Catalog in Poems. Megan double-majored in religion and creative writing at Susquehanna University, in her home state of Pennsylvania, then continued exploring connections between creativity and faith at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music. She is now a parish priest living in Massachusetts. Connect with Megan more at meganmcdermottpoet.com.
Image: Jens Lelie
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