Jerusalem is destroyed, flattened. It’s in habitants hauled away into exile. The city is “shamed by her destruction.” How do you even begin to speak about this? An impossible situation in which it seems no one cares and there is no one to listen - not even the Divine? In this elegy, the poet uses the picture of a woman - a widow who is alone. Saying things like, “there is no one to comfort her” and the widow saying, “No one is near to comfort me, no one to restore my spirit.” And the isolation only seems to grow. Because Jerusalem is destroyed no pilgrims come to celebrate the feasts, “The roads to Zion mourn, for no one comes to her appointed festivals.”
This is perhaps the hardest, most intense of the five poems. It finishes without hope, only a request; without light at the end of the proverbial tunnel, only a hope for some sort of revenge. What do we do in these kind of moments? We cry out. We lament. We lay it all out there, even if we are not wholly sure God is listening.
March 26, 2023: Saved From What? - Michael Hidalgo
March 19, 2023: Off the Mark - Michael Hidalgo
March 12, 2023: Can These Bones Live - Jonathan Merritt
March 5, 2023: Dirt - Michael Hidalgo
February 26, 2023: A Picture of the Divine - Dave Neuhausel
February 19, 2023: The Message is The Medium
February 12, 2023: Girl Stand Up - Bekah Stewart
February 5, 2023: Living in the Tombs - Michael Hidalgo
January 29, 2023: And Also - Jonathan Merritt
January 22, 2023: Four Wisdom Sayings - Michael Hidalgo
January 15, 2023: Nothing Wasted - Amanda Lum
January 8, 2023: The Tragedy of Loving Little - Michael Hidalgo
December 24, 2022: The Extraordinary Ordinary
December 18, 2022: Kings and Other Things - Michael Hidalgo
December 11, 2022: A New Exodus - Bekah Stewart
December 4, 2022: Go Back a Different Way - Michael Hidalgo
November 26, 2022: Take Her Home - Michael Hidalgo
November 20, 2022: You Were Expecting Me? - Amanda Lum
November 11, 2022: A Tale of Two Crowds - Michael Hidalgo
November 6, 2022: Faith in the One Who Sees You
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