Peace

Why?

My heart screams

Why?

Why did this have

To happen?

How?

How?

My insides shout

How did this happen?

How did Hashem

Allow this to happen?

And how?

How will these families

Go on?

Be comforted?

Will they ever

Find comfort

In this loss

In this brutal murder

Of their young sons?

I know

I know there are

No

Answers

In this world

I know this is

An upside-down world

Where good and bad

Are confused

Where happy and sad

Are diffused

Where we don’t know

What is true good

What is really bad

We just don’t know

But there is a plan.

I know

That

I don’t know

But still

I can’t help it

I can’t help crying

I can’t help feeling

This pain

I can’t help wishing

To understand

I know I can’t

I know I wont

In this world

They do.

Those up There

They understand

They know

They are at peace

In a better place

While we

Down here

Continue to

Struggle

Question

Ask

Wonder

Challenge

Wish

And cry.

They don’t need to

Struggle

Or question

They have no

Questions

They have no

Tears

These young boys

And all the other

Little boys

Whose lives ended

Way too soon

For those

Close to them.

They are happy

Up There

Their neshamos rejoice

In that very special place

Reserved for those

Very special souls

Who are held so close

To the One Above

Caressed with love

They know

It’s all for the good

They understand

This is how it should

Be.

There is a plan

Hashem’s guiding Hand

Orchestrated this.

But…this?

Something is amiss

I imagine bliss-up There

So then why

Did they have to die

Like this?

In a way

That makes everyone

Cry?

Why?

If they are going

Up to a place

Of eternal Peace

Then why?

Did they have to die

With such hatred

By bloodthirsty

Murderers?

Animals.

Is that how

They rose

Ascended

To the melech malchei hamlochim

To the place

Of Ultimate Peace?

By dying

This way?

Perhaps-

Perhaps it is

The peace

The unity

The achdus

The togetherness

That was achieved

Through these

Two plus weeks

To find

These missing

Boys

Our boys

Perhaps this

Peace

That came about

Through their

Disappearance

Through their

Tragic story

The unity

The prayers

The mitzvos

The tzeddakah

The peace

Between all

The breaking

Of barriers

Between all

Colors, stripes

Levels and types.

Maybe

Just maybe

The zechus

Of the peace

Their death brought

To this world

Down Here

Brought them up

Way up

There

To a place

Of Ultimate

Peace.

No, they didn’t die

With hatred

They died

With love

Unity

Brotherhood

Achdus

Connection

Between all

Jews.

May their souls

Rise up

May their families

Be blessed

With comfort

From

The Only One

Who can.

May their families

Be strengthened

By the unity

And peace

These little boys

Brought

Onto this world.

This is part of an even longer poem I wrote after I heard the very sad news about these boys and tried to work though some of my questions by writing out my feelings. If you want to see the whole poem, send me an email.