Give and Take

There was a time
When all I sought
Was simple pleasure

Which then evolved
To seeking more the
Spiritual kind

Now even that
Cannot compare
To one small measure

Of knowing that
I took Your Name
And made it mine.

I am the Place

In memory of Neely Snyder and in honor of her heroic husband, Joshua.


I am the Place


In which you sit
Life, vest,
Oxygen, mask.

I am the belt
Holding you tight
Buckling and
Unbuckling.


I am the seat
That makes you float
If you hug me
Against your chest.


I am the One
Who comforts you,
Pilot signaling
It's safe to stand.




Note: "The Place" (HaMakom) is one of G-d's names, used primarily in the words of consolation used in addressing those in mourning, "sitting Shivah": May the  Omnipresent (lit. "the Place") comfort you among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem."  

Tenth Sense

The Song

Of Mashiach

Is simple,

Its sound

Is the beat

Of the heart.

Its smell

Is pure

Inspiration,

Its sight

Is the light

Of the sun.

Its taste

Is new and

familiar,

Its touch

Is a hug

Nicely done.

Landing Again

Landing Again

I am
Here now,
And have
A G-d.

For Him,
I still
Never
Had left.

I hope
One day
To feel
That, too.

Rachel

Many think that for
The Messiah to come 
There must be war. 
In truth, there must be peace. 

The only weapon 
Needed to conquer 
The entire world 
Will be a mother's prayer.

Facing Facebook

When the screen grows dim

And you lose focus, hooked, faced
With the dizzying news and noise,

General, impersonal, fake,
Vague, unlikely, faceless
Complex, incomplete, remember

That after all is said and done
All you have is a mountain,
A field, and a home.

The ladder you dream of climbing,
The plot in which you chose to plant,
And the one to whom you will return.

You know it's all just One, yet
All you'll truly have is home,
Along with those let in,

And those that out will come.

Miami

Miami

Eu que fui 

Meio louco

Vivi de tudo 

Um pouco

Mas até que

Chegue o moço

Não troco por nada

Isso aqui.

Minha capital,

Grandeza sem igual (em potencial)

Ou alguém normal,

Mistura tropical

De Nova Iorque, Rio,

Nice, Odessa,

Havana, Disney, 

Buenos Aires, Haiti.


Translation:

Miami

Me, who's been
Kind of crazy
Lived it all
a bit

But until
The man arrives
I switch for nothing
This here.

My capital
Greatness without equal (in potential)
Or anyone normal
Tropical mix

Of New York, Rio,
NIce, Odessa,
Havana, Disney,
Buenos Aires, Haiti.