<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">Weaving Peace</span><div style="font-size: 22px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 22px;">I ask to be a loom in the service of peace.</div><div style="font-size: 22px;">Let voices weave through me,</div><div style="font-size: 22px;">whether barbed with the burrs and seeds of pain,</div><div style="font-size: 22px;">or carefully carded and spun with light.</div><div style="font-size: 22px;">Let me bring forth</div><div style="font-size: 22px;">a tapestry blanket,</div><div style="font-size: 22px;">kufiyah, tallit.</div><div style="font-size: 22px;">Where there is unravelling,</div><div style="font-size: 22px;">let me remember to knit.</div><div style="font-size: 22px;">If I meet the flash and stab of fire,</div><div style="font-size: 22px;">let me be rebuilt from fresh wood.</div><div style="font-size: 22px;">In a state of rubble,</div><div style="font-size: 22px;">let me remember to weave.</div><div style="font-size: 22px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 22px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Phyllis Meshulam</div><div><br></div></body></html>