The Space Within

BY Ashrei (Ima Sari Wisenthal)

The Space Within - AI generated art

The more they try to force their ways,

The stronger I will cleave to You.

The more they try to break me down,

The deeper my belief will brew. 

The more I hear their words of shame,

The brighter my resolve and aim.

For I will always walk Your path,

for You are with me, You bring me light.

I will know no harm nor suffer in their name, 

If with Your wings my shelter lives,

If with Your tears my heart will rest.

Guard my soul, melt arrows aimed towards it,

Be my rock, so all falls end in Your strength.

Contain me in Your endless matter,

Penetrate my every particle, my life - my 

Essence You will free,

Sparks through shivers You will move,

the space between it all is me, 

the space between it all is You.

You blend life, You blend me, 

Stir my soul and being,

Fuse my body with sands,

With fire You clean me,

Purifying my vessel with pain,

My glass is of Your portion,

See me, peek inside, 

I am not there; humidity that faded away.

Only Your light can break through me. 

As pure as crystal, 

Each particle shattered with ease,

Under lost memories of Jerusalem, my love,

Every chupa is another crushed dream,

Your covenant can break us, 

A silent agreement of entanglement we have taken.

Your commitment is for all, 

a shattered glass, a lovers fall, 

So fix Your part - G-d, You are overdue.

Set us free from the pain; loving only that which we contain.

Take our shards of emptiness into Your heart,

Vibrate through our fractured souls,

Heal the crisis of this break - Your hand, please, unfold. 

Give me strength, dissolve my sorrow, 

For You- my G-d, my glass was forged,

Through love and lust and all this fire,

Burn in me; in all this space,

Cleanse me with Your shivering place, 

Were it is only You who knows this truth;

The sensation of a heart - an untold hurt. 

Take it all, leave me emptier yet,

Spread me through the heavens, 

Expand this joy - erase all past mistakes. 

For only from within can we unlock this door, 

The endlessness of G-d, of space, the universe, your essence - 

It is only found inside those hidden spaces.

In you, not a cell, 

In you, in Your presence,

In a space, not in matter, 

It is there that you will find 

just how much you truly matter.

 Like a shattering glass, forged by fire, from sands,

I am forged by Your love, from dust and -

Breath,

I will rise.

Reborn.

You can choose too, 

It is all within you - 

Look and find the You, in you.

Find your path,

unveil who you are.

Let shame fall, and fall into faith of the -

Unknown.