Where was God..?

Where was God in the Warsaw Ghetto?
Do you really want to know?
Or..do you just want to ask?

Combing through German archives...
Pictures of suffering
taken for their amusement..
A Nazi photographer...
Captured...so vividly
the face of God...

Oh ..how I long to reach across...
Across..the decades...and hold you..
to caress away the frightening fear..
I long to feel what you feel...
if only for a day...


Where was God..in suffering?
How can that be more perplexing..
Than....Where is God now..?
In this unabashed excess...
in this exile of madness..
(..................do we deserve this..only goes one way??)
...where there is so much sadness...
you can’t even laugh without crying..
Where is God now?

Oh..we suffer...
But not as a people..
..we suffer...
But God is nowhere
....to be seen...


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