Type: Poem

“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…”

“Bring to our turn-table faith that we can turn the tide, / where children’s laughter sparkles in the clear blue air…”

“In this grove that awakens in me forgotten tears of grief…”

“for Shalom is wholeness / for Salaam is whispered promise…”

“a world in which the children of Sarah, / and the children of Hagar will finally live in peace.”

“What stories will we tell this infant / war, what songs sing to it?”

“We reach to touch souls as luminous as mirrors / so we might reflect light back to each other.”