Poetry: There is no separation

There is no separation - אין הבדלה

God - You create distinctions, 

You create light and darkness, 

You create sunrise, sunset, dawn and gloaming – 

help us into the in-between.

Source of loss and hope, 

You taught Kohelet that there is a time to mourn and a time to dance, 

You taught Amichai about the false dichotomy:

that we laugh and cry with the same eyes, 

make love in war and war in love –  

teach us the same. 

May we laugh with tear trails still wet on our cheeks.

May we dance to a broken heart. 

God – You create liminal spaces. 

May the tears we sow

yield a harvest of hope.

May our brokenness allow Your light into our darkness –  

to feel joy, find strength, taste sweetness. 

We mourn, God.

Let us dance too. 

by Karen Martin, referencing Kohelet 3, and A Man Doesn’t Have Time in His Life by Yehuda Amichai