Poetry: Climbing

This morning,

in the small basement shul,

amidst several Chasidic students lost in prayer,

I looked up from my siddur

to see a man in worker’s clothes climb a ladder

and enter through an open ceiling panel.

And I thought, Oh yes,

he is just another one

like all of us

trying desperately to ascend,

but knowing full well he must come back down

to perform the work of this earth.

From the book G‑d's Optimism by Yehoshua November

Wishing you an uplifting Shabbat,

Rabbi Mendy & Mussy

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