you do not have to pray
to love the stranger
and you do not have to pray
to care for the sick
and you do not have to pray
to be the stranger and the sick
without uttering
or doing any little thing
you were made as g-d was
all you had to to do was
be born into this world
and exist.
to occupy the seasons of a recurring birth
and in time, to not move
to shrivel away as grass
and to remember
when we cannot bow,
that our life is more lasting than any vaporous word.
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