Exodus: The Never Ending Story - Bruce Silverman

[Larry Robinson]

Exodus: The Never
Ending Story

Exodus
from America
is a phrase that one
is beginning to hear more
and more during these days.

The E word
sits in our DNA.
Yes, we’ll celebrate
the great escape from Egypt
but it’s never what is seems in the
land of those Mitzraims: Canaan, Rome, and
Spain, tragic illusions and heart-breaking dreams.

Yes, we’ll
celebrate spring and
renewal, the miracle of
creation, but along the tracks
of our pilgrimage we have had our
original tickets punched merely as travel
visas, affirming the truth that all beings on this
earth are undocumented immigrants walking hand

in hand
through the
the Sinai sand,
across the Edmond Pettis
Bridge and the parched desert
darkness toward the Rio Grand.
The hands that penned the Torah did not
begin with the creation or the fall but clearly
proclaimed the duty for us all to heed the next call
when the next Pharaoh starts to build the next wall.



* Mitzrayim: the Hebrew word for ancient Egypt/the ‘narrow
place” both in geography and the human heart.


        - Bruce Silverman