Cosmopolitics
In the heart of the urban fortress of staid social correctness, at the hub of the world, on the solid ground of rocketing high - rise triumphant opportunism, latent insanity penetrates those who enjoy its fruits. Awakening among wrinkled pillows of reality, I think I saw, through the prism of a mirage, all those years in the homeland, an echo of my childhood in post - mandatory Haifa; words like “King's Way” and "Check Post"* rise from submerged deep waters of past life experiences. A new serenity flickers and spreads within me: Rules and obligations of the heart rise up through a shattered existential floor; my soul wriggles free as the nameless burden of the black-ice glacier of loss slowly melts; I yearn for a routine far from post-traumatic mental emergencies forged in childhood; convalescing from a rootless journey I try, with spirit and imagination, to spin a day worth living to the end.
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Being raised in a holocaust survivors family in a newly established country, which was closed from the outside world during many years, I wrote this poem during a relocation to London, UK.
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