‘We will dance again’
Defiance
From the pit of
Loss
Grief
Mourning
The night of
Dancing
Eclipsed
By a dawn of
Blood.
And now
The cycle has
Turned
One year on
Are we ready
To dance
Again?
The joy of Life
Does not yet
Lift our feet
Too much life
Lost
The impulse for Joy
Stolen
With the captives
Then
like them
Abandoned
In the long ache of
Waiting
Waiting.
But perhaps
Recalling our ancestors’
Long treks through
Every wilderness
We can
Rejoice
In the Torah
Rooted
Resilient
Through every raging
Uprooting storm
Grasp
Our ‘Tree of Life’
In our arms
And let our broken hearts
Beat out a dance?
Rabbi Elli Tikvah Sarah