My Body In The West...... Poem by David Levitas

My body in the West, its heart Eastward lies;
My mind that Eastward rests, as spirit Westward flies;
My flesh that to Jerusalem yearns,
By ignorance and the willing kiss of guile
On Edom's bed thistles earns,
The laughter of malicious eyes
The hunger of the seed unfertilized
That neighbours and the passing stranger
Seek to make its own, in thought or deed
By force or prostitution,
Directing what's not his to whom it serves
In promise of reward:
Coveting the objects of other's desire
He tempts the sense with what, pining, the will still holds true;
For that moment's weakness, when snatching what's not his
He steals what's to other's rightly wed,
Joining their desires in scarlet imagery,
Your corpse, a carpet beneath their horseless chariots.