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The Lower Fear
by Dan KastenI listen as a cello plays deeply and soulfully
a harp joins in offering distant yet gentle compassion
in this moment lives remembrance and sorrow
stones for those who passed with a people’s dignity
a blank canvas to the lone violinist
each note a tear, a personal history
of cloth stars sewn to ripped garments
pictures of lives enjoying picnics before the lower fear
look skyward for any outward signs of Spring
for butterflies, for insight into God’s master plan
purposefully placed one octave too high for us
to reach without requisite pain
at which time I ask myself, is there ever
a bad time to listen to Kol Nidre.
04/12/2009 Author's Note: Written for Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), April 21st. For more poems on this subject, stop by Rick Lupert's PoetrySuperHighway.com on the day.
Posted on 04/12/2009
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