Kaylee

Animated.

Fresh from an epiphany called Israel

This young woman

Has dreams.

She has found something beautiful

In the people and the country

That gives her an identity.

Kaylee has discovered a cause.

Just returned from a place

Where  politics and geography

Are the common currency,

Exceeding the value of money.

She told of joining a protest

That called on the government

To return Israel from a place of millionaires

To its more socialistic roots.

Yes, there is a boy in this canvas

That makes her desire to return

To that brave small country

A matter of urgency.

Today, I imagine Kaylee 

Finishing her schooling in Israel,

Doing two years of army service,

And living on a Kibbutz with chickens and bomb shelters.