04-22-2024, 04:07 AM
Mourn with Me
Now bow Your head and mourn with me again
this day their tragic loss of innocence
their anthem sung in halting minor key...
each time believing they would be allowed
to live together with, yet stay apart–
who cannot both assimilate and be.
They felt, again, while trying to comply,
that being useful would earn tolerance.
But as in every instance heretofore
when lender turned to hated creditor
indulgence twisted into Inquisition
and Pale of Settlement to blood pogrom.
Each time their fatal innocence re-grows
and buds and flowers on a harrowed vine
to once again be lopped and cauterized.
Dear God in Heaven, mourn along with me
and show Your people mercy now, at last,
whose anthem and whose curse is called “The Hope.”
Now bow Your head and mourn with me again
this day their tragic loss of innocence
their anthem sung in halting minor key...
each time believing they would be allowed
to live together with, yet stay apart–
who cannot both assimilate and be.
They felt, again, while trying to comply,
that being useful would earn tolerance.
But as in every instance heretofore
when lender turned to hated creditor
indulgence twisted into Inquisition
and Pale of Settlement to blood pogrom.
Each time their fatal innocence re-grows
and buds and flowers on a harrowed vine
to once again be lopped and cauterized.
Dear God in Heaven, mourn along with me
and show Your people mercy now, at last,
whose anthem and whose curse is called “The Hope.”
Non-practicing atheist