Elul Greening
by Judith Feinstein
Have we done the reparation
so to take the consolation
and digest it all and well?
Have we psalms we want to hear
releasing some for other's ears
while disregarding somber prohets' words?
Can we see Akiva's vision, crumbling Temple fox is running as a sign
Moschaiach's coming or do we yet deny our state?
Do we choose to not attend to
what this month we must amends do
so that we are then released
from martyr's fate at our own hands.
We do not ...