The silver birches trunks boast gaudy white

The season of late winter is so bright

Sun so hot the sparrows build their nests

The silver birches trunks are gaudy white

 

A pair of swans   are  handsome in their flight

As if to send a message ,to insist

The season of  late winter is now bright

 

To our dark-used eye a brilliant sight

As sparrows wonder whether to resist

The silver birches trunks are gaudy white

 

Beetles wander, warm with appetite

Have no  warning system, future test

The season of late winter  silver bright

 

How humble are we humans towards this might

Nature is not altered by the Fist

The Silver Birches trunks uncanny, white

 

As in  golden  dreams would  Flowers kiss

No frogs croak, no snakes  should bite or hiss

The season of late winter is  so bright

The silver birches trunks boast gaudy white

Reason makes its wondrous, obscene blend

Affect matters more than numbers do
Reason without love ,so blind to ends
Rational means were used to kill our Jews.

Searching  Europe’s “haystacks” for a clue
Reason makes its wondrous,  obscene blend
Affect matters more than numbers do

When Belsen was relieved, who bought the glue?
The bones of  suffering  dead  might,did offend
Rational  calculaters  tortured Jews.

Was Jesus rational,  what the end he knew?
See his mother Mary, weeping,kind.
Affect matters more than numbers do

By the Christians, Jesus was abused
His brothers and his sisters barred, disdained
Factories were used to gas his Jews.

How  to see what matters in the end
Hate outweighed by Love, controlled not blamed
Affect matters more than numbers do
Rational  calculations ,G-d, oh G-d, Jesu.