my spirit, eh?

THE SPIRIT OF MY LIFE

An Ode, somewhat like the Odes and Psalms

That Prophets sang so many years ago

By Izzy Ess of possible knowing-ness

Sweet Moses, when you freed the Jews from Egypt,

I was freed to come alive, today.

It was a celebration of my People

And you sang a song, the Song of Moses,

Well accompanied by Miriam

Who played the tambourines and danced.  Oh, thank

You Lot for starting blood lines that would get

Us David, Saul and Solomon and Jesus,

Through begetting that is faithfully

Recorded by the Bible.  Thank you Joshua

For your great efforts at the walled

Jericho which allowed the armies of

The Jews to make it to Jerusalem,

Where Solomon built his great temple.  Thanks

To Esther and her Mordecai, who bravely

Cornered Achascverus to protect

The Jews from Haman.  She became the Queen

Of Persia.  Thanks to all of you, my mother

And my father, who did make it possible

For me to live so optimistically

In the Promised Lands, so full

Of Milk and Honey.  Ancient Jewish Spirit

Of my mother’s father, Yitzchok, who was killed

By Cossacks only after he and my

Own grandmother had then produced a brood

Of fourteen children, half of whom had made

It safely to the land of Canada.

That Spirit was the same as Abraham’s

First Jewish son, his only Isaac, and

It joyously was given to me by

The God of Abraham.  The other half

Had died of lung infections, in Ukraine,

In years before there was The Penicillin,

That would have saved their lives in the world-

Wide Plagues, the Epidemics of 1917

And 1918.  This strong

Life Spirit of The Ancient Jews, recorded

Duly in the Pentateuch, is mine, and I

Have passed it on to my three children with

A gladness in my heart for all of them.

It’s only now, at five and seventy,

That I have somehow garnered wisdom and

Some small insights about my Spirit, actually,

Our strong Spirits that have been

Our special forces for our lives, today

And yesteryear and for the whole duration

Of our lives and coming afterlives.

AMEN AND HALLELUJAH!

THE END

© izzy sommers, md

Welland, Canada

September 3, 2013

In the Season of the Anniversaries of births of All My Children.