Grasshoppers

Hey, Jew, you know you have managed without a country before. What's the big dilemma? So give a little more. And if it is not near enough, then keep right on giving There's a bunch of other countries where you could try living.

Admit it … packing up and wandering is second nature by now. You've done it too often Jew, to pretend you don't know how. Who says you have to finish just cause here is where you started? History doesn't bind you. It can be rewritten, disregarded.

Who cares about slanders or fears, ghettos or tears of generations past? Once upon a time you had a dream...so...who said it had to last? Forget the struggle, anguished cries, mothers' faces etched in pain, Forget the risk, the fight, the work, the prayer and forfeit the gain… sovereignty.

And if it's snug and secure you feel with world opinion on your side, Pity … you still can't tell when you've been taken for a ride. Yield to the agenda of others if you will; it's still no guarantee. Just take a head count. Who was busy saving you in 1943?

Maybe a grasshopper is what you are; our own spies voted 10 to 2, But if you believe that majority, I fear for your children, Jew. Grasshoppers don't bleed, grasshoppers don't cry, Detested, crushed, forgotten in the wink of a snickering eye.

Leaving us once again, a scattered remnant to try, Grappling with the hauntingly familiar question … WHY?

A Poem by Elaine Slomovic, Jerusalem Chapter Women For Israel's Tomorrow (Women In Green)

Last changed: August 16, 2004

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