Yom HaShoah/Holocaust Remembrance Day
Yom HaShoah
by Ilana Streit
There is a gaping hole
in the body of the Jewish people
about fifty years old
and slowly healing
Some try to cover it with bandages
but the wound needs to breathe
Some try to fill it with Land
but I’m afraid it will get infected
Doctors estimate that within one hundred years
scar tissue will begin to form
There is a gaping hole
in the soul of the Jewish people
Some try to fill it with words