It’s Shabbat so Israel has turned off the lights,
A complete blackout for Gaza
It’s a hunter’s moon tonight, a lunar eclipse
The wax drips off the candles and my Jewish faith sinks into the floor
I light the first Shabbat candle for Gaza before the world snuffs her out
I can’t see G-d in the darkness, just orange plumes and moonlit shrapnel scraping children’s feet