Slammed & Split

Six Words

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Baruch
Praised Be

Praise Me.
Praise He
who
puts pen to page
to pen pages sage.

atah
You

He
She
Please mind me
and speak free
to the people who need

Adonai
Our God,

You and I —
even if neither of us chooses to care.
So let's embrace the thought of God
just in case God is there

Eloheinu

The true,
high holy
whose name we can't say
or essence truly know

melech ha'olam
Sovereign of the Universe

Something out there explains all this
and something keeps it going.
It could be Newton's physics,
or Einstein's relativity —
we've got
no way of knowing.
But nature's found
some enriched ground
and keeps forever growing.

So Maybe six words of Hebrew
are all that passed
between my ancestors and myself.
That doesn't mean you
should discount me as a Jew,
so please keep that sermon to yourself.