Dear Names
by Roberto Malini - English translation by Leah Weintraub
In memory of the 11 victims of the attack on the Pittsburgh synagogue.
They died during life
in the peace of Shabbat.
We remember their blessed names,
extinguished by the bestiality of hatred
once more.
Dear names, how poisoned
is this world that houses
such fragile existences!
Only faith in the earth
that will be renewed
can give us comfort now.
And only if we can love in you
every past, present and future life
will we be relieved of cruelty.