Cause and Consequence

Cause and Consequence 

We live in a world of cause and consequence

The way things are going, it truly makes sense

The ground parting around the world

Showing us our choices weren't furled

Africa splitting into two

All because of our egoistic view

Because of the hatred expressed in the lands

Instead of holding each other’s hands

The mountains groan and the oceans rise

While man still trades in his selfish lies

He builds his towers, he draws his lines

Then acts surprised at the warning signs

The earth itself begins to shake

From all the blows that our egos make

For nature follows one perfect law

While man keeps tearing with tooth and claw

We were not made to live this way

Devouring night and cursing day

We were made to learn, to bend, to see

That love alone can set us free

For every fracture in the ground

Reflects a hatred we have found

And every storm and every flame

Whispers back man is to blame

Yet covered deep beneath the pain

There still remains a holy gain

For every crack that splits apart

Can wake the sleeping human heart

So let us stop before the fall

And hear creation’s aching call

Not with pride and not with demands

But by learning to hold each other’s hands

The Torah and Prayer

 The Torah and Prayer

Torah and Prayer are two opposite parts

Our job is to learn the difference so we can start

Torah brings Light from Above down below

Prayer raises the lack from the heart’s inner woe

One fills the vessel, the other reveals

The cracks in the soul that the ego conceals

Torah is given, a gift from the King

Prayer is the cry that the broken ones bring

One is the answer, the other the plea

Together they build true equivalency

When I learn Torah but don’t feel the need

It turns into knowledge that starves out the seed

But when prayer awakens from deep in despair

The Torah brings Light and corrects what is there

So back and forth like the breath that we take

Deficiency rising, fulfillment awake

Not one without two, not two without One

This is the path till correction is done

So give me the lack, let my heart truly pray

Then dress it with Torah to show me the way

For in this connection, the two become One

And the work of the Creator in us is begun