Return To Zion

As social experiments go this one is quite
remarkable for its follow-through period
throughout history and the selection of a
limited demographic of an ethno-religious
tribe faithful to a group culture and its
unerring belief in one god. Really, there
is nothing new under the sun as we can
see from the liberating new cosmopolitan
political message of 'post-nationalism'.
Consider that experiment that banished a
people from its heritage and beloved land
where that people became world wanderers
showing up everywhere on every continent
in a scattered diaspora and adaptation to
life in a land other than their own. They
are an exotic breed, those of us who went
forward and multiplied only to be victims
of one wave of oppressive subjugation
after another; pogroms and genocidal bursts
of lethal punishment all failed to cure that
people of their longing for their homeland
and the ancient city on a hill, its Temple
closer to God. On their eventual return
to Zion the experiment continues, the dear
nearness achieved yet they may no longer pray
on that hill, the Temple twice destroyed. Of
the return there is the unsettling challenge
of denial of their historical roots in the land.