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Double Covenant (poem with explanation)

June 06, 2023 Mary Madeline Schumpert
Double Covenant (poem with explanation)
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Everyday Create
Double Covenant (poem with explanation)
Jun 06, 2023
Mary Madeline Schumpert

Written version on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/CjEa9SSJJ0o/

"Double Covenant"

They couldn’t find love 
because they searched for it as
a penny on the sidewalk—
a quick pick-me-up,
happenstance,
pocket change,
an add-on to the appetizers of life.

When it was actually
water in a desert—
quenching,
hard-won,
and utterly 
indispensable. 

I finally found it
in the form of a covenant.
and it’s not a happened-to,
but a promise-to.
We’ve locked each other down, 
sealed us tight in Him,
and the sweetest way 
I’ve ever known.

(Fun fact about this poem: I wrote the first two stanzas four years ago, before I started dating Kyle, and the last just today. He’s been the last stanza to a lot of my un-finished poems. There’s something lovely about that to me.)

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Written version on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/CjEa9SSJJ0o/

"Double Covenant"

They couldn’t find love 
because they searched for it as
a penny on the sidewalk—
a quick pick-me-up,
happenstance,
pocket change,
an add-on to the appetizers of life.

When it was actually
water in a desert—
quenching,
hard-won,
and utterly 
indispensable. 

I finally found it
in the form of a covenant.
and it’s not a happened-to,
but a promise-to.
We’ve locked each other down, 
sealed us tight in Him,
and the sweetest way 
I’ve ever known.

(Fun fact about this poem: I wrote the first two stanzas four years ago, before I started dating Kyle, and the last just today. He’s been the last stanza to a lot of my un-finished poems. There’s something lovely about that to me.)