Before I Go With You Today

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Liana Hanokaee




If you want me to go with you today,

Just let me know G-d rules the day.

If you want me to go with you today,

Don’t let me lose peace and harmony.

If you want to go with me today,

tell me you want righteous kids.

And if that’s not what you want, 

I’ll leave you to lay, I’ll leave you to lay.


And if G-d’s there, I know it’s ok.

And if love runs out, this was all a play.

No one determines the fate of each day 

In between two voices, we wind our way


I say 

Hashem is here. Hashem is real.

But how can I know?

Cuz he told me not to steal?

Because of cells and their dance with DNA?

Or all the different sparks of souls nested in different bodies? 


Hashem, don’t let me fall.

Don’t let me lose myself with men.

I don’t want to make another entity my G-d. 

I want to live again.


So before I go with you today

Just let me know G-d rules the day.

Comments

  1. Rina ShamilovMarch 8, 2022 at 11:18 AM

    this reads like a song or a psalm, or a combination of both. i wonder if you could personify god's presence and relate it to how you view the world. aside from god being omnipresent, what role does god play in your life and in this poem?

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