What lives in the silence?

what lives in the silence of a Dead Sea of Thieves swallowing up a small mercy—-a sword inside of a raw stone, nothing to squeeze out of,

I drown mysteries, starvation of souls and body and mind, I cannot escape the drowning when in a cloud of mystical song

Angels with flaming swords and blackened stars turn into the sun, whipping the moon to reveal the gravity of the universe

Will there be any more swallowed up in the void of careless cruelty? Will the void of our own self-love destroy a whole soul?

Who lives in the silence? I will not stay silent

Eleven weeks. Every single day, hour, minute, second, the children are crying and dying and lonely and starving

Eleven weeks, the people fighting for the right to see another day

It makes me weep for my Jewish blood, what have we become? This is not the blood I know

What can a jar of baby food do to a missile? What can a bottle of water do to a raging bullet? What does a box of food do when a bomb hits a house or a hospital?

I cannot let my brothers be swallowed up in the silence. Even if they believe in a different God or have a different culture

They are still my brothers

A miracle is still a blessing and a blessing still a testament even if we believe in different ways

What lives in the black hole of the unrelenting giant that creates uncompromising destruction

Is it just one person pretending they don’t hear their cries?