Allow Fullness : Oseh Shalom

As you hear the dawn song of birds and frogs

Listen for the night song of thrumming bass and sirens

The wail of the grieving, the roar of the flames

As you hear the snap of a twig and 

The rustle of leaves on an evening walk

Listen for the stutter of gunfire in the streets

As you hear your playlist pouring from your earbuds

Listen for the chants calling for Justice and

The endless names of the murdered

As you hear the gurgle of a stream, an infant’s babble

Listen for the teargas gags of crowds on the march

The gasps of hypoxics dying alone in tents and ICUs

As you hear the shattering glass in the city

The diseased systems collapsing onto themselves

Listen for your heart breaking open, letting in what is true

As you hear rain hit the Earth, the splash in your sink

Listen for the trickle of blood on the pavement 

The silence of an absent pulse

~Andrine de la Rocha

Shavuot 5780

May 30, 2020