Baruch Ata Adonai, Eloheinu Melech HaOlam, Dayan HaEmet.
We remember you,
resting now in the presence of the Holy One:
the six million in Europe,
whose deaths we are sure we would never have allowed.
We remember you not because you are distinct,
but because you are not.
We remember you, the hundreds of thousands
in Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
whose deaths we would not have allowed,
except we needed them.
We remember you, the millions of Africans enslaved;
the millions of Native Americans
slaughtered, displaced and “assimilated,”
whose deaths we would never have allowed
except we did.
For a moment we remember those
whose deaths we count as unworthy to remember,
dying even now.
Haunt us, we pray:
teach us to see
before we have to remember.
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
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