Befoe Hanukah 5785

One More Lament

Gaza eats at my heart, I feel the bite
of tiny teeth in mouths that are unfed,
no divine presence here, that shame's all ours,
nature indifferent, lost god, no shroud

we've become who we abhorred, the horror
that we once abhorred we dare perpetrate,
this is beyond chutzpah, a festival
of nightmare sea, sky can't comprehend

time humbled, time hobbled, …