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A Lamentation

8/5/2014

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Because I gave no attention to the Space within which the world unfolds,
But rather sought to impose my control upon the world’s unfolding;
    
Because rather than gratitude for what I had,
Complaining about what I didn’t have;

Because I closed my fist around what I had,
Rather than opening my hand to those who did not have;

For all this I imagine that this curse now upon me is punishment;
I imagine that G-d strikes at me in anger, that I am guilty.

But the Kadosh Barukh Hu does not punish, does not reward.
The Kadosh is the Empty Space from which renewal springs;
It is Its Own reward; to ignore It is Its own punishment.

Hashiveinu HaShem Eilekha, V’nashuvah! 
There is Only One- rejoicing and suffering, loving and hating,
Unfolding as this world, messy and beautiful.

Please: Unfold as us embracing you,
Knowing you as the Space of this moment unfolding.

Hadeish yameinu k’kedem~
Infuse our days with the spirit of renewal-
The sunlight glistening on a drop of dew clinging to a leaf~
Just as the days when we were children before we knew trouble,
Just as the days before we developed the idea of “us” and “them”.

 


2 Comments
Bruce Joffe
11/8/2014 06:49:53 am

Beautiful!
A beautiful, meaningful, liturgical poem-prayer.
Thank you, Brian!

Your life is demonstrating that the more one looks for/at the divine, the more one sees it!

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brian yosef
11/19/2014 05:11:33 am

thanks Bruce and you are welcome!

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