Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Meditation for Tefillin

By Elizabeth Sarah

I cannot
bind myself
to You
I can only
unbind myself
continually and
free
Your spirit
within me.

So why
this tender-cruel
parody of
bondage
black
leather
straps
skin
gut and
sacred litany of
power and
submission
which binds us
Your slave-people
still?

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