There once was a Place
All golden and new
Where down became up
And false became true.
The trees weren’t greeny
Nor the clouds puffy white
The air was not airy
Something just wasn’t right.
No one knows when it started
Or when it would end,
This upside down madness that
Felt like a trend.
Night became day and
Day became night,
This upside down Place
Where things weren’t right.
In the upside down Place lived
The Green and the Blue
Who started out friendly
As friendly would do.
But then it just happened
Like a raged Hurricane
A Most – Terrible – Awful
And a tsunami of pain.
It thrashed and it boiled
It reared and it roared,
This Most – Terrible – Awful
Would not be ignored.
And it got even badder
Than badder could be
In this upside down Place
Seems that not all were free.
The Greens screamed and
They marched,
Some by River some by Sea
They threw away the facts
Where facts should all be
The mob got all mobbier,
They took to the streets,
They shouted in schools and marched out in fleets.
“We want the Blues gone
We don’t care where they’ll go
This upside down Place
Wants you gone, don’t you know?!”
The Blues then got busy defending their name
Though some Blues turned Greeny from Anti-Blue shame.
Some Blues got more Bluish
Than ever before
The Most – Terrible – Awful
Shook them right to their core.
The Blues worked together in such a short span
Collecting and sending
As only Blues can.
Some Blues jumped on planes to a Major Blue Space,
Where being True Blue was the point of this Place.
And some Blues they stayed put
To ride out The Wave
“We’ve seen this before …
Greens will start to behave.”
How the story is ending
Is anyone’s guess
It’s so hard to see endings
When all is a mess.
If we could just blend
All our brilliant shades of Blue
Upside down might be flipped
For our V’Nahafoch hu.
Esti Rosen Snukal made aliyah from Teaneck and has been living in Chashmonaim, Israel for the last 11 years. She is the proud mom of four boys, two who are reservists called in for battle on Oct. 7. Esti took a short hiatus from contributing to The Jewish Link as she wrote her first young children’s book series (yes, they rhyme of course). She is currently looking for an agent or publisher (call me). Esti can be reached at [email protected].
