Lee Diamond

Lee Diamond – With a Mournful Eye & Threads of Blue

A man at the beach (illustrative). Credit: Alex Levac

Lee Diamond – With a Mournful Eye & Threads of Blue

With a Mournful Eye

And Jews became believers—

—In Tikun Olam

Not Tikun Azmi

Not self preserving

But globalists

Contributing our very

Nature and history

Genius, and our

inter generational dialogue

As tools to fix a world

That was quite pleased to be

Broken

Once we were chosen

Or were we were choosing?

Once we taught by example

Once we were

The Jews

Proud

 

Threads of Blue

 

A reminder

To keep us aware

Aware of who we are

On each of the corners

Of our garments.

To remember

Perhaps even to be known

That this is a person

Who wears his/her

Commitments on

“His/Her sleeve”

That thread of blue

Described In Torah

Distinguishes us as

Choosing our uniqueness

Not better, but different

And Needing reminders

The blue was lost  to us

For many generations

But  the threads remained

Yet Incomplete without our

Special blue!

Yes we lived without

The heavenly blue

Which was lost

As we were!

We held the strings

Tightly and even kissed

Them

We didn’t dare recreate

A new blue

And then one day

The heavens declared

Our glory again

And opened for us

The thin string of

Blue was rediscovered

But doubled

And broadened

On a sheet of White

And the blue and white

Became our new reminder

Of our uniqueness

The new blue

Became the symbol

Of the new Jew.

A flag is only a symbol

Can never be holy

But we can.

If we remember

Who we are and what

We stand for.

The blue is here to stay

The white background

Will always form The contrast

Glaring at us

And reminding us

That we are the

Children of Israel

Nothing more

But nothing less.

 

 

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