Stand with Peace, Zamen -El Salam, Ellaya Ayal Mor at Sufi Singing Circle

This piece emerged in response to the torrent of views flooding the media after October 7th.
It was inspired by Rumi's famous poem "Beyond ideas of right-doing and wrong-doing there is a field. I'll meet you there".

It was performed on the 5/10/2024 at the Unicorn of Pardes Chana in Israel, woven into the song Zamen El Salam (Time for Peace) that written by Amnon Abutbul, Yair Dallal and Fatchi Kasem.

With:
Ellaya Ayal Mor - Spoken word
Shiri Gurfinklel - vocals
Itamar Zakai- Oud
Dor Deloya- Mandolin

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Stand with Peace\ Ellaya Ayal Mor

Who do you stand with?
Tell me. Do you stand with us?
Did you see what they did!???
Are you standing with us? Against us?
You will? You won't?

And if you are standing with us,
Passionately declaring our rights…. let me now ask of you,
Don’t'.

Don't stand with us or them.
Please.
Don't.
.
Don't stand with shouts of justified killing or mortified rage.
Don't stand with blue and white flags vs. black\red\green
Don't stand with black and white views that keep us locked in this cage
Of endless cycles of suffering with no hope for release.
Stand with ending this blood-drenched human tragedy
Please
Stand with
Peace.


Don't stand with ours or theirs
Don’t stand with the strip or the envelope or the triangle or for that matter with rectangles or squares.
Or with any shape or form that closes its content behind rigid lines.
Or concrete walls.

Stand with the shattered fragments of all concepts broken
Stand with bleeding anguished hearts cracked open.
To seeing deeper.
Stand with seeing deeper.
Stand with tears.

Tears for our wounded humanity, tears for the rivers of blood shed between the river and the sea.

Between the river and the sea, stand for all creatures to be safe and free
And fed and warm,
Between all rivers and all seas.
Stand with the river, stand with the sea, stand with the earth.
Stand with women giving birth
To children
Who are taught to love and listen.
Their birthright.

Don't stand with Stars of David
Stand with stars.
Those stars of goodness that persistently glisten
Through the depths of days that are very dark.

Stand for depth
stand for depth of listening.
Don't stand with David.
Stand with David and Daoud and Miriam and Maryum living side by side
Working through their difficulties, committed to making it work, getting help when needed.
It will be needed.
Wise help. Compassionate help.
Help that unwaveringly holds the impossible tangle of complexity,
With care.

Stand with care,
Stand with caring hands and caring hearts and caring open eyes,

Stand with open seas and open rivers and open skies
Stand with open fields. Stand with the field beyond ideas of right and wrong.
Yes that one.
It's a beautiful field.
Stand with that field. Let us stand in the field.
Let's take a walk in the field, let's dance in the field, let's run and play and sing and pray
To stop
This deadly kindergarten squabble.
(He started no he did!)

Please.
Don't stand with Israel or with Gaza.
Don’t' stand.

Get down on your knees in the field.
Dig a tunnel beneath the walls of screaming views, start with your wall, I'll start with mine. Let's demand the madness cease.
Scrape the hard ground with bloody fingernails and aching soul
Dig a hole.
And plant
Against (and with) all odds
Plant
The seed
Of peace.