Germany

Land of daughters free.
Major and minor royalty.
Hapsburg dynasty?
Bavaria, what is your fame?
What do you claim?
Is it the Jewess who used
to make gelt fish
and present them on
her silver platters
before the Holocaust?

What is enduring until the end?
Is it the nation of parents who were lost,
parenting parents now birthing hope.
Why do children seem unwanted...
is their value not convenient
or their jewels not given light to reveal
their gleam?

Why do those who suffer, Turks, refugees-
not find hope in wanting something different
from whence they came?

I knew of a man and woman, Marcus and
Rachina were their names.
They came from your shores
and bore much pain. They found God
in the Torah and Talmud, too.

I found God in Jesus.



Dedicated to Hattie Stern.
She came from Germany.