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Corie Feiner's avatar

“And you, who are you

if you hear my voice?

Who are you, stranger

if you read these words?

Who are we

who stand threatened

in these times of darkness?

Who are we, condemned to die,

who do not know ourselves

at all?”

I hear your voice calling to us from the dead.

The enmeshment that runs through the DNA of multigenerational trauma, suffering, and running. It was born into our bellies and chests.

Who am I? I am the seventh generation of suffering that says it is going to stop here. The fear of the pogroms born into the hard root of my heart, the tattoo on my arm that falls like a flag for my brother, my sister, my parents, yours.

I am what exodus is. Daring to leave the narrow space and enter the vast uncertainty of consciousness, when none of us know who we are because we are everything and nothing.

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Larry Jaffe's avatar

Brilliant poem. I could truly feel your mother with every word

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