Seventh Night: Before And After The Sea

 

Before The Sea

 

What I’m willing to leave behind in the narrow place:

 

Bricks, Whips, Forced labor

Blood, Packing, Yeast

Slavery, Racism, Masters

Danger, Weakness, Servitude

Plagues, Lies, Jew Haters

 

Netflix, My Room, Two-dimensions

Distance, Masks, Chapped Hands

Racism, Conspiracies, Death

Worry, Fear, Loneliness 

Plagues, Lies, Jew Haters

I put it all in my backpack

And put the pack down on the beach

Before I step into the Sea.

 

 

After The Sea   Now what? We’ve stepped into the water, We’ve crossed the Sea of Reeds. We said we would go and we went We’re here in the desert Now what?   What are we supposed to do now? Go out into the world, Talk to people? You want us to talk to people? In person?! Do we have to touch them? Are we supposed to touch them? Do we want to touch them? And ewww, they’re all so…three dimensional.   And in the new world of freedom there is Body odor And decisions.  We need to do stuff.  We didn’t want to leave our rooms.   We miss our pajamas.  We miss knowing that nothing was going to happen.   We miss the cucumbers of Egypt.  We will need to think about this, It could take years.