You speak in code as though you want me to know but you don’t want to tell me As though you can’t choose between one or the other As though you’re scared to cross over…
Browsing Category Finding Direction
My Shadow, My Friend
The desert is barren, drier than I remember. In the distance, the sand is billowing. It’s either a sandstorm or another human, but it doesn’t matter which. When a red cloth waves in the distance,…
Not Afraid Of Wild Beasts Any More
22 ain’t a bad age to start my life Independent from how I was raised She thought as she left her house in a plaid mini skirt and ruffled t shirt in the heart of…
Balancing Act
No one knows. No one can. None of you truly know me. I’m alone in the crowd. Too religious for these, too modern for those, a radical feminist, a religious fanatic from the dark ages….
Intellectual or spiritual
We whisper as we think We feel as we drive the forces that are within We love the money attitude of the intellect but we can’t express what we want with our mouths because it…
Raining In On What I Really Want
There I was driving to make it Driving to run out in the pouring rain Driving to make sure I was going to be okay with health, parnassa with educating my kid And it was…
The Yemenite One
Married at 18 as the man who was exotic and humble At the same time Loved to smoke with Yemenite family Who shouted with money With their fists When he moved to Israel Never afraid…
An Adult Who Became Chabad
Grew up modern orthodox Never felt the soul of Judaism Until he gave what he had to others Which was his tefillin Which his great uncle Gave him not too long ago When he reached…
The Revolving Last Name
A non-Jew he was, In Alabama He complained about racial injustice And the plights of the so called innocent Never once questioned his paycheck until he attended Harvard Law In the Zuckerberg Days He was…