Sometimes
when I pray the words
scurry by like ants
I watch their silent progress
unregistered on the kitchen scale
undulating in their trail
unnoticed until they become
a swarm
indistinguishable one from the next
Sometimes
there is one you see
that carries five thousand times
its weight
enough to feed them all
for a day
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This poem first appeared at the Episcopal Cafe, part of the Episcopal Journal
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About Rosalind C Hughes
Rosalind C Hughes is a priest and author living near the shores of Lake Erie. After growing up in England and Wales, and living briefly in Singapore, she is now settled in Ohio. She serves an Episcopal church just outside Cleveland. Rosalind is the author of A Family Like Mine: Biblical Stories of Love, Loss, and Longing , and Whom Shall I Fear? Urgent Questions for Christians in an Age of Violence, both from Upper Room Books. She loves the lake, misses the ocean, and is finally coming to terms with snow.
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