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<div>a poem, written for Passover by <font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><b>Arnold Greenberg</b></span></font> and shared on the occasion of the attack on the Freedom Flotilla</div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 48.0px; text-indent: 48.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 19.0px Helvetica"><b>NO PASSING OVER</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 48.0px; text-indent: 48.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><b>Even in escape, there’s no escape,</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 48.0px; text-indent: 48.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><b>no opening of waters, no Promised Land,</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 48.0px; text-indent: 48.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><b>no paradise, no freedom</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 48.0px; text-indent: 48.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><b>if the Sinai that was crossed</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 48.0px; text-indent: 48.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><b>so long ago is littered now with bones</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 48.0px; text-indent: 48.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><b>crumbling in that sand</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 48.0px; text-indent: 48.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><b>and broken hearts are screaming anguished cries</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 48.0px; text-indent: 48.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><b>and tears from longing eyes</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 48.0px; text-indent: 48.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><b>roll down cheeks</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 48.0px; text-indent: 48.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><b>looking at the land no longer theirs.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 48.0px; text-indent: 48.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><b> </b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 48.0px; text-indent: 48.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><b>Now, there is no grassy hill to sit on in the setting sun</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 48.0px; text-indent: 48.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><b>feeling chosen while the un-chosen run</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 48.0px; text-indent: 48.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><b>through burning streets—</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 48.0px; text-indent: 48.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><b>fathers with their sons dying in their arms,</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 48.0px; text-indent: 48.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><b>mothers weeping on their knees,</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 48.0px; text-indent: 48.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><b>neighbors dashing from the doorways</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 48.0px; text-indent: 48.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><b>as their homes explode.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 48.0px; text-indent: 48.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><b> </b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 48.0px; text-indent: 48.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><b>And when I taste the bitter herb</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 48.0px; text-indent: 48.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><b>my tongue is bitter with this shame</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 48.0px; text-indent: 48.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><b>and I cannot look away and celebrate.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 48.0px; text-indent: 48.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><b>I cannot taste the wine</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 48.0px; text-indent: 48.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><b>or the sweetness of the honey</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 48.0px; text-indent: 48.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><b>when those in Palestine</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 48.0px; text-indent: 48.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><b>cannot sip and taste with me</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 48.0px; text-indent: 48.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><b>the joy of liberation.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 48.0px; text-indent: 48.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><b> </b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 48.0px; text-indent: 48.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><b>Perhaps, a year will come</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 48.0px; text-indent: 48.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><b>when I can click my glass and drink</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 48.0px; text-indent: 48.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><b>to freedom and celebrate</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 48.0px; text-indent: 48.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><b>in song and prayer, at last,</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 48.0px; text-indent: 48.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><b>for what we couldn’t share</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 48.0px; text-indent: 48.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><b>for all these years.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 48.0px; text-indent: 48.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><b> </b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 48.0px; text-indent: 48.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><b>Perhaps a time will come</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 48.0px; text-indent: 48.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><b>when borders won’t exist</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 48.0px; text-indent: 48.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><b>and walls come tumbling down</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 48.0px; text-indent: 48.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><b>again like Jericho and no one lives</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 48.0px; text-indent: 48.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><b>in shadows while others live in light--</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 48.0px; text-indent: 48.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><b>until then, laughter cannot hide this sadness.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 48.0px; text-indent: 48.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 19.0px Helvetica"><b> </b></font></p></div></body></html>