YONAH IS NOT STANDING WHERE ONLY GOD IS
(WRITTEN AFTER READING AVIVAH ZORNBERG'S CHAPTER ON ‘YONAH' IN HER BOOK ‘THE MURMURING DEEP')
Yonah is not standing where only God is-
He is praying from his belly
He does not want to live-
All the great fishes and the great sailors of the sea
Cannot understand what Yonah cannot be-
The time has come
The moment is here
God alone can answer Yonah's fear-
Nineveh is saved with twelve-thousand men
But Yonah's gourd has disappeared again-
Life is a longing and life is a prayer
Life's an enigma though God everywhere.
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