Write To Life     by Elana Horwitz

It’s Right Here

A Chanukah Poem

Elana Horwitz

originally published on www.raananakollel.org


It’s hard to find a minute
But eight nights a year
She makes a moment

Turns her back on it all
The work the noise the chatter
Strides across the dark road

Escapes home
So she can look back
And see what it is she has

Spins around, this drama her tradition,
Her moment.
The air is frost
Takes a deep shaky breath

Sees again. That it’s
Right Here

Here is her window
Hers, with dancing flames
Her life is music, warmth within
Her world is richness, Chanukah
Her home is energy, what powerful lights!

She smiles in the blackness, a woman alone
A woman blessed
An accomplished woman
A grateful woman, by the grace of G-d she lit them