Belonging/Poem

August 30, 2007 in On the Wordy Side

On a New Sense of Belonging
running miles
jumping           hurdles
bowing down
for this mighty   being
saying prayers
making spreads
putting things up
and taking things down
what we do
to prove
we are
what they say we should be
but we’ve been given a gift
everyone forgets
the instant community
an immediate sense of knowing
and understanding
being Jewish is
being
family
honoring and respecting
mourning and crying
trying and hoping
to [...]