What a painful time this is
How heavy the heart feels
How murky the mind full of fears
How foggy the eyes
From tears
As we see
The horrors
The violence
As we watch and feel
How division grows
As we read pieces with
perspectives steeped in
Emptiness
Rooted in ignorance
Or knowledge of just tiny parts
That limit the view
Of the
Whole
This morning I snuggled my six year old
Cradled him in my arms
As I do every day when I wake him up
To go to school
His sweet smile and super soft skin
Filled my grief with
Love
I closed my eyes and smelled his head
As I did when he was just a tiny babe
I felt grateful
And it felt painful
My child is healthy and whole
He’s in my arms
And all of a sudden he was
One of the children kidnapped by Hamas
In the tunnel
In the dark
Tied up
Away from home
I held him close and the tears
flowed
And all of a sudden he was a Palestinian kid
With blood running down his face
Limp body
Is he alive?
And the anguish turned unbearable
I held him close
And then he was
One of the terrorists when he was just
A little kid
This morning
I climbed up the bunk bed ladder
To snuggle my almost 11 year old girl
And welcome her into a new day
It’s our usual morning routine
She refuses to get up
And then I tickle her
and she tickles me
And we giggle
I closed my eyes
And she was one of the young women
Kidnapped by Hamas
My heart couldn’t take it
What is she going through right now?
I held her close
She’s safe
What are those women
Down in the tunnel
What are they going through?
I hugged her close
And the tears
She was the daughter of the father
who was kidnapped by Hamas
And she was the sister of the boy
Who will never come back
And then she was a Palestinian
Mother
And the child wasn’t
And she was the mother
Of a terrorist
when he was just a little child
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