Never Again - Merkaz Harav - A Poem

And in all the noise, the silence fills my ears,
It engulfs me, and I can no longer hear.

Bullet, bullet, click, click
Fresh wounds, wounds of 'Why',
Meaningless colours change the face of the sky,
Blinded eyes, so cold, so cold.
Silenced blood, cooling mud.
Lead in our hearts,
our heart,
our
body falls, falls again.
One more time, one last time.

Muscles cold, cold as snow.
Eyes glazed, face broken,
Life is not the same.
Never the same, no,
Never again.
In all this molasses,
we said,
Never again.

Bullet to brain, bullet to brain.
In all this molasses,
What's in my name?
Root of your game?
Again and again,
You murder and maim.
Yet, yes, in all this molasses,
we said,
with the scars of our pain,
crippled and shamed,
after torture and slaughter,
again and again:
NEVER again,
we said,
NEVER again:
A rock or a bomb or a bullet,
the same.

What's in my name?Your hate is insane.
Again and again, just for my name,
What's in your brain?
Poison coils and roots its evil,
entrenched and cemented,
it's part of you!

I can't try to explain,
To a world of hatred and
twisted window panes.
I can only stretch again
my scarred, weary tough arm
Raise my gun, eyes prayerward, Heavenward
Tie my boots and take aim:
Again, and Again...