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There are no words for this moment. How are we to feel… About the fires in the sand And the black rivers of loss. | |
And how the enemy unleashed horrors on them. | |
There are not enough memorial candles… For those forced to leave the hallways of their hearts. Cut down, years before their time. | |
And now everything, everything, everything Will remember that they were there. | |
There are no more tears, For the nation-wide alerts, For crimson stained pillowcases, For a charred red tricycle, For a desecrated woman, A mother’s anguish, a father’s brokenness, For the obliteration Of every single, dear, treasured One-and-only, life—an extinguished universe. | |
There are no words. | |
Nevertheless, we gather now with wounded hearts, And we lift each other up with weary arms, And we pray with shattered spirits for shalom, peace. | |
Reeling… Rising… Reciting… Ancient prayers and finding our voice, Whispering an infinity of amens. |
“An infinity of amens” was written by Hanna Yerushalmi on 15 October 2023 in the aftermath of the massacres on Shemini Atseret 5784.
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