I Eat Maror: Refections of a Jew of Color
MAROR: Reflections of a Jew of Color
We eat maror to remember bitterness of oppression in the criminal justice system
We eat maror to remember bitterness of oppression of tyrannical executive order
We eat maror to remember systemic oppression
Of the immigrant, the sick, the powerless, and the poor,
I eat maror to remember being spat upon
Judio! your Grandma’s a Jew
I eat maror to remember
Shame on you, Conversos
I eat maror to remember bitterness
In sweet sanctuary of worship
Where the only people who looked like me
Were hired to clean up our debris
I eat maror to remember
That which unites us
While speakers with august degrees
Tell me how I should feel
Discourse with civility
Sarabande
Pas waltz around
In three, two, one
About face
Face to face
I eat maror to remember how bittersweet it is to see people of color
Llike me in here
And I do not, do not for one moment doubt that they are Jewish
if they’re in here
Haven’t we all come to worship in this house so fine
Broken we walked in here
You have no idea how
Broken and needing
When we come in here
Broken and needing to pray
I eat maror to remember how bitter
Sweet it is to see people of color
In here where I raised my children
We are care
Giving for our parents
We are baby
Sitting with your children
We are women and men without whom this city will go poof!
But we’re invisible except when we’re called to clean up the debris
I eat maror to remember bitterness
that ruined my taste
That ate up my teeth
When I was told
Something’s not quite right
You don’t have the background
You don’t have the Yichus
Move over
this is only
for Jews
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