Take it Like a Man
Take it like a man
You will not enter the land
your life of service
in vain now
Hashem said: Speak to the rock
you struck the rock.
Take it like a man
tantalising green promise glimpsed
this dream denied
your childhood moment mirrored:
eye to glittering jewels
hand directed to burning coals
clutching singed tongue
aral sefatayim.
Take it like a man
your people move on
you ascend
to the mountain top
of crossings, not arrival
to die there alone.
Silence.
Moses Moses
You prayed for us
Who prays for you now?
I plead your injustice
Your yearning denied.
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