You Call (Hatzileni)

By Ashrei (Ima Sari Wisenthal)

You Call AI Art by Ashrei Ima Sari

Hatzileni* - 

You call,

Putting so much faith in my trust. 

You crossed through the river,

Sat in Your house, 

And now, 

End now. 

You call me to speak

Up - 

You wish me to go. 

To the mountain I have witnessed, 

All those years before. 

Looking at Your glory, 

A sunrise in despair, 

Lost in a cave, awaiting, 

The pain no one wished to bear.

Hatzileni - again You call,

Forty-two mothers will carry you away,

The warriors of light, 

The givers of life, 

This land was for our birthing, 

Our men toiled hard,

Now you call me to rescue - You,

Hatzileni - 

Who am I to extract wisdom from the depth of Your fall?

Who else will hear it?

Will no one else look at this call?

Embrace me with love, 

The world has yet to comprehend. 

Root me in Your essence,

Let my core touch your pain.

For I feel the scars you carry,

I see the veins of every soul,

A truth exposed - an exile - 

It was You they hated so,

Pushed away by my side, 

Dissolved into a unified mess, 

Where light becomes the darkness of all this shimmering space.

Hatzileni - 

You haunt me,

Hunted as a deer by the sound of Your flame, 

You pull me back in as an Av* collecting his Em*,

Seducing with forty-two joyful games. 

Hatzileni - 

Ima* - don’t taunt what this is, 

Become the mother to His love,

Be the river, healing his needs. 

Experience the greatest of falls - 

What has yet come - will pass, 

Hatzileni - from the dead, 

Wake me up when I should stand. 

Hatzileni - where I am,

In a cave, 

Mine,

Your inner secrets - hidden in sunrises

bathe my essence,

Into grabbing arms I must willingly wander, 

Return to what once skipped my eyes, what I refused to ponder. 

Look twice.

Hatzileni - come furth, You call me again,

Hatzileni - from whom? From myself or from them? 

Hatzileni - please come, You whisper so loudly, 

Hatzileni - they call, with a breakable cry.   

Hatzileni?

Hatzilenu! I demand that of You! 

The only way to end this - is by following through. 

Hatzileni - You ask, so unlock Your palace. 

Hatzilenu - 

Return us, savoured in oneness - with

You, Awake, Stand,

Look,

Look

Up.

…breathe it in - if you can. 

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* Hatzileni - הַצִּילֵנִי - rescue me 

* Av - אָב - father

* Em - אֶם - mother

* Ima - אִמָּא- mother