Ginnifer Goodwin Instagram – Last night at our October 7th Memorial, we were honored to have actress and activist @ginnifergoodwin share the deeply moving poem “Mothers” by Osnat Eldar, written in response to the horrific attacks on October 7th.
Mothers by Osnat Eldar
They are gathering at night
One by one
She whose daughter was abducted and her bloodstained picture doesn’t allow her any peace
She whose son fell in battle
She whose children will remain forever in the little safe room in the corner of the house on the kibbutz
She who remained mute on the other end of the line scratching the horrors onto her skin
She who whispered from time to time to him. Or to her
“I love you”
‘I am with you’
I am here
Hello?!
She who wasn’t able to say goodbye
She who is holding onto a fragment of a film clip showing him alive
She who woke up on Shabbat with the knowledge of death germinating within her.
At night, in my darkened room, they are wandering in circles
Drooped shoulders, restless, sleep crazed.
Mothers
If only they could change places with the boy or the girl
Ready for captivity or death
Mothers.
Not yet used to wandering.
They come to me at night
One by one
I am hugging them with compassion, with longing
Absorbing into my body the feelings of guilt, the helplessness, the abyss
And caressing silently their new maternal title
Imposed on them.
🎗️#bringthemhome | Posted on 09/Oct/2024 07:55:02
