Josiah Vermont

Contingency
-Josiah Vermont

We don’t need a contingency plan
We already have one
Every Pesach after the Seder we say
“Next year in Jerusalem”
If for some unforeseeable
we shall be separated
and have no technology
for communicating
and our telepathic operating systems
are down
and our lungs still breathe in the breath
of life
we can still reunite
Isn’t that thought beautiful?
If Amalek should rise again
or all electrical circuits should disconnect
or our tongues no longer function
or our space lasers fail
we can still find each other
through this one line
L’shanah Haba’ah B’Yerushalayim