Helpless

Sometimes I feel my heart beating fast

My breath breathing faster

How can I stand aside and say or do nothing

I loathe the words that are spoken

I loathe the division that is so split and divided

I loathe the violence

That like an inferno rips the country apart.

It affects me so deeply

That I have to write

In the hope that there will be a change of heart

That I can look in the mirror and say

I did something!

So I feel forgiven

But just for a little while

It takes time to adjust one's thoughts to one of gratitude for the many things bestowed on me

Family and friends to brighten up our days

Eilat with its beauty of mountains and sea.

They are not in the conflict of helplessness that I experience

They are G-D given

The joy of nature, of flowers and trees, butterflies and bees

They too like the birds that sing and fly at night are a gift of life.

I count my blessings every day

To remind myself of the many gifts of life

So never to forget that the opposite of helplessness is light and joy in the miracles of life.

It is my fervent prayer that we all believe in gratitude

To change our thoughts to one of prayer and forgiveness to make a better world to see the "other side of life".

Just to be kind to one another is goodness itself

to rid the helplessness we feel and see

A belief that one hand will stretch out and touch each another

So we can cling to hope that will never be abandoned

But will forever with our gratitude

Be intertwined together

While we pray for peace in our blessed land.