Yitzchak Rabin – 30 years since that traumatic day

As if it were yesterday…

The words that follow were written after a visit to Jerusalem, less than a month after his assassination.

Has anything changed?

Lost In Last Respects

Israel, December 1995

I went to pay my last respects

to light candles

to mourn a member of

my extended family

Yitzchak

First to Kikar Rabin

where it happened

and then to Har Herzl

where he rests

The Kotel at the square

is an open sore

filled with pain and anger and anguish and grief

a raw wound

publicly exposed for all to see

A Kotel that wails family tears

On the cold wet slab of concrete

where his dying breath is engraved........

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