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Masada

Ava Garfinkel

My body is the land of milk and Honey,

My soul is the Red Sea.

You made my hips into Masada,

You pretended not to hear my plea.

My cheeks are a desert,

dry and scorched by the sun.

I trusted you as my Shepard,

But now you're the hunter I can't outrun.

My thighs are the temple you sieged,

My defending walls were ravaged,

Evil has invaded where you breeched.

There's no where left for the sabbath.

I was sacred Jerusalem before I knew you,

My stone was ancient and strong,

all prayers were loving and true.

Now I'm just a captive of Babylon.

But Honey, listen to me closely,

I'm slowly trekking through the sand,

I remember what it once was to be holy,

I know that you're not the promised land.

ABOUT THE WRITER:

Ava Garfinkel is a 23-year-old queer Jewish poet from small-town Manitoba. She has a BFA in Art history and will be beginning a master's degree in September 2020. Garfinkel enjoys writing poetry when she’s procrastinating on assignments. She has been writing and procrastinating since she was seven years old.

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