One Day After A Terrorist Attack

I SIT ON THE PUBLIC BENCH I sit on the public bench Waiting for the time To pick up my grandson From his kindergarten I could be in my mind In other universes But I am where I am In the holy city of Jerusalem One day after a terrorist attack In which four religious Jews And one Druze policeman were murdered- I seem to have only my own name to write about But the world is stubborn strange cruel and indifferent What will be with all of us so outnumbered I don't know for certain- But we are a small people Who have endured through this hated For millennium For a century and one half We have slowly built A decent democratic country We too have given the world More good in medicine health science And the courage of our example Than our enemies have been able to destroy- Let us pray to God We can go on and be stronger And help make a better and kinder world For ourselves and for others-