Eleven Elders
The Big Bear Mother in the Night Sky
Watches
Children starve in Yemen
Suffering inhumane violations in Syria
Child prostitutes in Sri Lanka
She sees Eleven Elders shot
At the Tree of Life Synagogue
In Pittsburgh
She tells her daughter
Little She Bear
To stay on watch
But she sends her own Seven Stars
Down to Earth
Shooting stars
Falling stars honouring the Fallen
Lighting other lights
They take the shape of Snow Flakes
Blanketing the cold shivering Earth
Like an infant seeking comfort
As The World Tree shudders
And quakes in grief
Over the wounding of her child
The Tree of Life
Seven Stars
Seven Lights
Of the seven-branched
Golden candelabra
Are lit
In the Tabernacle:
The Menorah
(Hammered out of
A single chunk of gold)
For eleven nights
A ferociously protective
Divine Bear Mother
Lends her lights to earthlings
Seven lights burn
In spiritual darkness
Guiding souls Home
And awakening the Elder
In Others
Imelda Almqvist, Kärrshagen, Sweden 29 October 2018