Topic Tags: grief

“We are all mourners now / Needing, wanting, giving comfort / For ourselves…” For each other.”

“We are in mourning; / our people are in mourning; / collectively we are sitting shiva.”

“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.