Speaking to you
I do not hear you and
you do not hear me
We fly past one another
that is our loss
Gold
I save this, meant for
the moments when I walk through
the garden of love
Love I lose from losing you
is found again and again
in the back of the house of prayer
saved for after the prayers end
when we have come to love again
A bridge to the soul’s shadow
crosses your path
one thousand times
and each time
I become
more without
The book that is holy
is on a shelf next to
my mother and her mother’s
The book becomes my
candle
I write love poems in it’s memory
they glisten
and they praise
When the angels come
and set fire to
my love
I will
pray the ash
plants new life
Most days
I am full with bread and honey
and hope
Like the answer of doves
to the question of a gate
You exist in all places
How might my ghost find it?
Many years in exile with a smile and a hope
Across bridges and journeys long
ago
It seems
I was here once
Under the wings of day
a heavy love
enters my heart
and for a moment,
I forget myself
Sometimes I forget Your name
it comes to me as You close Your eyes
I am aching to know
the difference between pride and shame
why there barely is
and yet it seems so wide
Alone and Together
On a clear path
every flower has its beauty
I am with angels who mourn
the full heart desires
Watching over a land
across the sea from Jerusalem
We pray in that direction
next year year I will return
What is love
and the color of grass
where You water it?
Made of Honey
We are each facing in
if inwards is a mirror
Though it reflects beyond us
and the body becomes ours
In a world made so full
one must remember
the taste of silence
For that is the creator’s
first love
The Taste of Silence
יש דברים שמילים לא יודעות
There are things words do not know
Most days I find it
in the chest beneath my heart
full
and always there
Where is your smile?
To be open
with hands out is the direction
that time passes
Hashem
You are with me when I smile
You are with me when I cry
You are with me when I do not believe
You are with me when I believe
You are with me when I am alone
You are with me when I speak to You