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Without Jews

1 Without Jews, no Jewish God.

2 If, God forbid, we should quit

3 This world, Your poor tent’s light

4 Would out.

5 Abraham knew You in a cloud:

6 Since then, You are the flame

7 Of our face, the rays

8 Our eyes blaze,

9 Our likeness

10 Whom we formed:

11 In every land and town

12 A stranger.

13 Shattered Jewish skulls,

14 Shards of the divine,

15 Smashed, shamed pots –

16 These were Your light-bearing vessels,

17 Your tangibles,

18 Your portents of miracle!

19 Now count these heads

20 By the millions of the dead.

21 Around You the stars go dark.

22 Our memory of You, obscured.

23 Soon Your reign will close.

24 Where Jews sowed,

25 A scorched waste.

26 Dews weep

27 On dead grass.

28 The dream raped,

29 Reality raped,

30 Both blotted out.

31 Whole congregations sleep,

32 The babies, the women,

33 The young, the old.

34 Even Your pillars, Your rocks,

35 The tribe of Your saints,

36 Sleep their dead

37 Eternal sleep.

38 Who will dream You?

39 Remember You?

40 Deny You?

41 Yearn after You?

42 Who will flee You,

43 Only to return

44 Over a bridge of longing?

45 No end to night

46 For an extinguished people.

47 Heaven and earth wiped out.

48 Your tent void of light.

49 Flicker of the Jews’ last hour.

50 Soon, Jewish God,

51 Your eclipse.