Topic Tags: war

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

“Oh this heartbreak,  Silence howling.  Oh this heart ache,  Terror prowling…” 

“we must turn from death and war / and learn again the message of hope and love and peace.”

“She fights for her life, while I panic in my room, / thousands of miles away, in plain clothes…”

“I am afraid to wear a kippah, to put on my Star of David, / or to even look or seem a little Jewish…”

“Who will bathe heated heads with cool clarity?”

“We ask that that you inspire humans to remember our fellow creatures in this time of war, to mitigate the damage that we cause them and to bring us all to a time of peace.”

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

“the cry rises from every throat – may this never happen again!”

“Help our nighttime wakings / become sites of radical imagination and creativity…”