It's hard for me to write about people now.
The words are too small and weak.
In one of the pictures taken of the hell
Kibbutz Be'eri endured, I saw a tree.
A tree that shaded a small kibbutz house where
Once lived a whole and happy family.
I cannot even imagine what the family members went through.
It seems to me that
The tree also struggled to stand in the ruins of the horror.
I wrote about a tree.
I have no words to give people.
A tree from Kibbutz Be'eri.
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Tales of tumult: Israeli authors decode war
- Writing the untold when you can't find the words/ Tamar Merin
- If you speak the language of life, you must look reality in the eye/ Ofir Touche Gafla
- October 7, 2023, a day that will live in infamy/ Noa Menhaim
- A call: Help release the Israeli captives/ Yishai Sarid
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A Kibbutz Be'eri home ravaged by Hamas terrorists in Hamas attack
(Photo: Herzl Yosef)
One tree in Kibbutz Be'eri
Saw things trees are never
supposed to see.
One tree in Kibbutz Be'eri heard too much
And could not escape smells.
Its roots held their breath,
Its branches trembled
Its leaves fell like tears
Its heart was crushed
Depressed
Yearning
Amputated
Silenced.
One tree in Kibbutz Be'eri
On the morning of October 7
No longer wanted to be a tree
In a place where there is no one left to protect.
One tree in Kibbutz Be'eri
asked to be a bench,
Maybe someone will come back,
And they might want to sit down.
In the destruction of Kibbutz Be'eri
Even trees cannot stand."
Tales of tumult: Israeli authors decode war
- The danger in how the world sees Hamas/ Edna Shemesh
- Your prisoner is only a baby: a letter to the jailer/ Sagit Emmet
- I feel like the person in 'The Scream' painting/ Ricki Cohen
- War and pogroms: From 2023 to 1903 in just one day/ Dorit Silverman
- Almost six months ago/ Lee Maman
- When the war started / Mayan Rogel