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 make things better

year after year

after year

after year

and they say

next year in Jerusalem

but I say

this year

together