עָלֵינוּ  / Aleynu L’shabey’akh: It Is Ours to Praise

Marcia Falk

It is ours to praise
the beauty of the world

even as we discern
the torn world.

For nothing is whole
that is not first rent

and out of the torn
we make whole again.

May we live with promise
in creation’s lap,

redemption budding
in our hands.