I remember the first reading and nothing else; The blank pages of unlived lives and the justifacation. Years of violence have proved to bear no consolation and your heart is still bleeding. Somehow you kept your humanity and yet the finer points have slipped away You see the wrongs done unto your enemy you have known the torment of not belonging. Yet you can still turn away. Born of hate and anger you were to be a shelter to those we knew had suffered, wept and not survived. by the Wailing Wall we could have wept with you Lost as you were. I love you like a relative I can not forget and may not like, but trust for the right reasons. I know that through the years, you have made the desert bloom and grieved for all friends and innocents who have died within you. But you know not the compassion for the foe that you've known for yourself. You are strong enough to go on but are you brave enough to forgive.
Very powerful. I have some of the same feelings since I've been a member of Peace Now for 20 years! Sophi Z
