Hamas War

Tuesday, May 2, 2006

In Shiloh's Cemetery, Memorial Day, 5766, 2006

Under the strong southern sun
we stood together in our solitary silences

Psalms and words of modern poets
Agnon and Uri Tzvi
and neighbors whose pain
will never be healed
never erased

No protection from the sun
on the hillside facing Jerusalem
No protection from the government
which wants to destroy us

Sages say
only through suffering
will we redeem our Land

Haven't we suffered enough?

2 comments:

YMedad said...

Which Uri Tzvi Greenberg poem?

Batya said...

don't remember