They Were Judaea Long Before

They Were Judaea Long Before

They were Judaea long before

A conqueror a Roman came

To slay most of the Jews in war

And alter Judah’s holy name

To “Palestine” for they’d prevent

A Jew returning once again;

That’s why the Roman was intent

On Jews to be doubly slain)

Sowing their Holy Land with salt

To undermine its fertile yield

So Jewish settlement should halt

They left a bloody battlefield.

The Jews continued through exile

Thrown into their captivity,

Allowed to stay for the meanwhile

In any place they had to be,

Compelled to wander everywhere,

So then to be expelled again

The homeland of the heart is there

As in its elsewhere to remain.

Wherever they would go they were

Considered to be strangers to

Those places come from anywhere

To be as only passing through,

And yet wherever they would come,

However long it was they’d stay,

Wherever they would’ve come from

They’d be forever on their way

Somewhere (no others understood)

Exactly where it was they’d been;

The world would be a neighborhood

If they would be the go-between.