THE SYNAGOGUE PEDAGOGUE.

Searching for the sacred scroll

Scripts by sanctified scribes

Sayings of sacred soothsayers

Seeing no sight of the scroll

Sweating, swearing and sighing

Dong! Dong! Dong!

The bell in belfry buzzes

When dawn and dusk diverges

Creating concentric circles of ripple effect Within the circumference of the synagogue

Signaling solemn summon

Still searching for the scroll

Service about to surface

But without the scroll

Murmuring, chattering and lamenting

Forms the rhythm in the revered room

As adherents of the synagogue

Awaits the pedagogue

With sullen look, he stood on

The sacred stand but without

The scroll and speaks:

"Beloved, when the perfect comes,

The imperfect disappears; no need for

The scroll anymore, because a new law is

Given; hidden within the hidden man of the

Heart, therefore search within and the Sacred scroll will be found; and in it, lies Your Salvation."

Still silence sweeps swiftly

As the Cherub floats with oil vials; Seraph Flits with incense censers;

Sacred smoke fumes and fills

The pillars and walls of 

The synagogue, glow gloriously

With illumination of great light

Ephphatha! Ephphatha! Ephphatha!

Enveloped and engulfed the synagogue

As the blind eyes opened

The deaf ears opened

The dumb tongues opened

The lame leaped

The sick strengthened

Even the sepulchers opened

And their captives freed

Enraptured by ruptures of great

Rejoicing, the adherents chants

This melodic psalmody:

"Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

Hosanna! Hosanna! Hosanna!

To the Lamb of God, that was

Slain; who had borne and taken away

Our sins, sicknesses and sorrows

Therefore, our mouth is filled with

Laughter; and tongue, songs of joy

We adore you, Adonnai:

Yehoshua Hamaschiach"!

©Gabriel Udensi.