His bow coaxed, mournfully
sad notes of the people
hope couched, shadowed
sorrow of the chosen,
history of the nation
millennia under tyranny
oppressed people of the law
singing from his bow, mournfully
September 5, 2008
written at the Agape Café coffeehouse
Wesley United Methodist Church
(one of 24 written there that night)
Jewish music
(Raymond A. Foss)
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