Sitting/Standing: Shiva After Anti-Semitic Terrorist Attack

A person with chin on hand appears deep in thought, set against a blurred background.

shiva is not eternity

 

and if its end is marked

with a walk

 

then our bodies are not meant

to sink into the ground

until the next beginning

 

we are the beginning!

 

and the discipline to create

our own answers 

 

to speak and shout life

to remake the end

 

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