Not in Our Eyes – A poem for Parsha Lech Lecha (Aliyah 2)

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And Pharaoh’s princes saw her, and they praised her to Pharaoh,
and the woman was taken to the house of Pharaoh.

Powerful men
regarding women
as property.

A husband
goes along with it.
This is how it was.

It took thousands
of years until the
me too collaboration

let them take
their own stories back
Too many years.

Our mother, Sarai,
before she got some
God in her name

passed around the
court in Egypt
like a bauble.

The beauty of our
ancient mother, does
not come from our eyes.

But from the
millions of souls
who set up tents

in all the
familiar places.
Each one

reaching for our
inner Sarah. Hoping
God is still there.

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