Tuesday, March 11, 2008

EASTER 1903 [inspired by Chaim Bialik]

hear the cries and screams
imagine the shattered hopes and dreams
touch with the flesh of your own hand the dead
witness with the eyes of your own head
on trees on fences on nails
the splattered blood sense the distant wails
walk past the shattered shelters and broken bones
the burned and barren brick the charred and scarred stones
listen to the dying echoes of yiddish tunes
see the gaping mouths of jewish wounds
torah scroll heaped upon talmudic manuscript
fragments refragmented torn and ripped
abandon this old world of slaughter
of massacred sons and murdered daughters
run away to america abandon your old homeland
to the easter brigands

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