I don’t know where to stand or how to be
The days are constant internal arguments

This one with a stranger on the radio, 
the woman who described her family’s suffering 
since the aggression began

Which beginning, I wonder?

(I know what she meant. Her world crumbled on October 8.)

Which beginning indeed.

Who has the oldest, surest claim to a crumbled world?
Who has dibs on all this suffering, 
this endless supply of degradation alienation & displacement

Who wins the prize for Most Unwanted People?

בָּרְכֵנוּ אָבִינוּ כֻּלָּנוּ כְּאֶחָד בְּאוֹר פָּנֶיךָ
Bless us, God, all of us as one, with the light of Your presence

Give us the courage to move beyond claims
Give us the courage to claim one another