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Section 2: La'Merkhav

Poem Number:

1

An Autumn Day in 2020

There is Always More Than This

There is more than this.
There is
always
more than this.

High school was hard for me, as it is for many.
I got bogged down.

Coming to college, I found a new perspective.
My understanding of the scope of the world
And of life,
grew.
It was freeing.

There was more to everything
than the
Confining, glum understanding
I had in high school

I discovered the beautiful, uncontainable expanse.

There is always more than this.

More than high school, more than college,
More to
Life
than grades and awards,
than of careers, and romance


More than
you
More than
me
More
than the merely secular


More than here,
more than there
More than now,
more than then.

More than the bad times,
or of the good
That comes
To an end.

There is always more than this.


Impermanence is never ending,
And so there is always more.
Such is the way of life.

I find hope and comfort in this.

When things are hard,
Just wait.
You cannot know what is to come,

But this hard time
this too shall pass
The world isn’t ending,
Only as you know it to be now


There is
always more.

There is
The expanse.

Psalm 118:5-6

מִן-הַמֵּצַר, קָרָאתִי יָּהּ, עָנָנִי בַמֶּרְחָב יָהּ.
Min hameitzar, karati ya, annani vamerchav ya.

יְהוָה לִי, לֹא אִירָא, מַה-יַּעֲשֶׂה לִי אָדָם.
Adonai li, lo ira, mah ya'aseh li adam.

Translation:
I called out to God from a narrow place; God responded from the expanse.
God is for me, I will not fear, what can man do unto me?

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