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Obadiah

Published July 29, 2023 by Christian Lee Seibold

How can I adopt the name of Jacob?

Or be embraced by Most High God

as one who wrestles?

Would I sit in

the ashes of the destruction?

These aren't my ashes,

The grieving of them isn't mine.

What's my Exodus?

As I read the text

these strangers become real.

I dwell with them,

I stand on their teachings.

I left my people

but Adonai gathers me in

adopting my broken pieces.

Through the Torah

Abraham brought me.

In Adonai's wings I was clothed,

Like His draping over Jonah's grief.

How can I sleep through the storm

or throw myself to the whales?

Does Jonah anger at Melchizedek?

I mark my work for God

but I have faced no destruction.

Like a fraud

I borrow what isn't mine.

But these aren't my ashes,

And the grieving of them isn't mine.

What's my Exodus?