Winckler Assignment two – LLED 445
Proxy Poem:
“להקשיב”
I who am safe
Cozy in my apartment
Who comes home each day to see
everything I could ever need
Ponder that these were men,
Who slaved in rain and snow
Who feared for their lives every day
Who risked life for a sip of soup
Who lived or died at a right or a left
Ponder that these were women,
Without identity or image
Without a will to go on
No ability to reproduce a future
like a single animal ripped of their mate
Refuse to forget that this has happened
These words have been commended to me
I have tattooed them on my soul
When I am home, when I am on the streets
When I’m with friends or students or colleagues
Repeat them to every ear that will listen
Or may I lose my rights
My ability to speak or listen
And the world turn its face on me.