Making My Heart an Instrument of Your Compassion: A Self-Caring Call to the New Year

sleep
child
and
you
will
be
awakened!
 
behind
our
eyes
the
Eye
of
Eternity
shifts her gaze
 
unfixed
and knowing
 
blowing our 
hearts
thought closed
now
wise
 
open
Shut
 
with the promise
of the new year’s
first day!
 
Ba-rukh A-tah A-do-noi E-loi-hei-nu
Me-lekh ha-o-lam 
she-he-khi-ya-nu v’ki-yi-ma-nu
vi-hi-gi-ya-nu liz-man ha-zeh. 

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