Jewish Prayers for Gaza

A Song of Ascent
far above the death and destruction:

You will return.
This nightmare will end
and you will return.

Your mouths will be filled
with laughter and joyous song
when the missiles and bombs
are silenced from the land
when the militarized walls
and fences and checkpoints
finally crumble into dust.

No, it will not be a dream
you will return from this exile,
flowing back like water
springing up from the barren
parched desert.

Those who sowed with tears
will reap with song.
Listen carefully and
you will hear it even now:
a glorious, ascending melody
guiding your steps
coaxing you back,
beckoning you home.