13 Nisan: Changing
March 24, 2013
This is a story about change.
Look: the seas are parting.
It's happening now. Open your eyes.
We were slaves to a Pharaoh in Egypt
but God brought us out of there.
This is a story about change.
The womb which had kept us alive
became constricting.
It's happening now. Open your eyes.
It's time to forget our anxieties
and leap off the precipice.
This is a story about change.
Even God is all about change --
I Am Becoming Who I Am Becoming.
It's happening now. Open your eyes.
The moon is almost full
to light our wanderings.
This is a story about change.
It's happening now. Open your eyes.
This is not-quite-a-villanelle. (A traditional villanelle rhymes, whereas this does not.) It's inspired by villanelles, anyway, and by their use of repeated lines.
Every year we read the same seder story, and every year we experience it differently -- not because it has changed, but because we have. (The same is true of Torah which we read week by week.) In this poem, the same lines appear, but hopefully mean something slightly different each time they recur.
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