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Breath of our bodies and harmattan of our ambitions | |
hurricane of our angers and chinook of our forgiveness | |
tempest of our childbirths and cold front of our silences | |
articulated gasp of pain and muffled sigh of pleasure | |
inbreath of my housecat and outbreath of every tree | |
gust that reshapes coastlines and tempest of our hearts | |
wind of the physical world and the realms of emanation beyond | |
Breath of All Life, the breath of all life blesses Your name. | |
If every mouth joined right now in breathing Your praises | |
if every present thing on earth stopped so we could laud You | |
if we all shared the roaring voice of lion and elephant and walrus, | |
the heightened senses of the mystic and the hunting owl | |
if we could fly like the Concorde looping your smoky name across the sky | |
if we could discard differences: human, animal, fire, stone, seed, snow | |
even that cry of togetherness would not be enough to thank You. |
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ויהי נעם אדני אלהינו עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננה עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננהו "May the pleasantness of אדֹני our elo’ah be upon us; may our handiwork be established for us — our handiwork, may it be established."–Psalms 90:17
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