Return to water

Return to Water
by Jessy Jacob (adapted into verse)

Our life on Earth�"a fleeting breath,
He touched many, younger, older,
Yet never kissed my eyes,
Couldn’t make me blink
A second to hold his image there.

He begged to be seen�"
From dawn to dusk,
And dusk to dawn,
Unblinking, like us�"
Fishes without eyelids,
Awake through the night
That was meant for sleep.

We tried to be human,
Stepped onto land,
But strength dissolved�"
Oversensitive,
Wounded by every gaze.

We were safe
In the womb of water,
Where silence cradles us.
Now, the tide calls us back�"
To depths,
To sea,
To ocean,
To Earth’s great body of water.

We came for peace.
We watched Greater Israel,
We wondered�"will Putin’s war end?
Let no war remain on Earth.
Let us return,
Ever and ever,
To where we belong.