Topic Tags: grief

“what will ensure / that this will never happen again?”

“Reasons mean nothing in the harsh light of consequence / Reasons are but shadows of war”

“and so I stumble / through my workday, / weeping in between meetings…”

“Into what space do we turn on our winding ways / to the place of tears and grief?”

“When will You lie us down in peace? When will these hakafot of violence end?”

“Sometimes there is not /  enough space / to contain all of the grief.”

“Time for your / soul to take flight, time for your soul / to light a new star.”

Imagine that the whole world is God’s sukkah, and that we are all sheltered there.

“I cannot tear it all down, / rip out the broken heart of it, / and be done with it.”

A poem about the contradictions in the month of Av.