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The Nation<br />
Changing<br />
Rachael Smith<br />
I found a love for Israel<br />
but lost the illusion of the life.<br />
I found an abstract ideaof<br />
red-dashed borders,<br />
of precedents,<br />
rights, ideascloser<br />
to me, than any abstraction<br />
before.<br />
But I found this Zionist idea,<br />
anywhere, found here־to be<br />
carried back<br />
not to stay.<br />
Here I found<br />
honking and rallies<br />
wild bus routes<br />
undecipherable phone bills.<br />
I found confusion,<br />
that increases the more I learn,<br />
the more I know.<br />
I found a city, a country<br />
and in that I lost the idea.<br />
The idea of the country<br />
which I’ll only get back,<br />
when I leave.<br />
H a tik v a h<br />
Sari Uretsky<br />
Once swamps and deserts<br />
useless and barren.<br />
I now drink the milk<br />
I taste the honey.<br />
But I see the broken backs<br />
that made her give birth.<br />
Those who gave their lives<br />
to make the deserts green<br />
and the swamps fertile.<br />
The children who fought and<br />
became soldiers in the night.<br />
The children who fight<br />
and are soldiers in the night.<br />
Any and every Jew, wished to come<br />
welcome in the land of hope.<br />
To share in the simcha of<br />
the Brit of Israel.
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