Looking for Home

Soon as I step off the plane at Ben Gurion Airport

I suddenly feel as if I’m still airborne

An incredible feeling rushing through my body

After several months showed no signs of stopping

Yeah those famous butterflies really do exist

I stepped on the land and was hit with a fit

Of passion, indescribable attraction

I close my eyes and imagine

My thoughts begin to fashion

How can a mere country evoke such emotion?

Create such notions, cause such devotion?

For this land, many people have died

And to here my history is intrinsically tied

But that can’t be it, there must be more to this place

Maybe it’s the fact that I can almost taste

The holiness, but there’s no way of showing it

Perhaps for me, it’s all about knowing it

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My dream, my hope my Zion

The only country in the world for all Jews to rely on

A land which people have cried and died on

But despite all its troubles it continues to strive on

A place with which I have instantly gelled

A place for which my feelings cannot be quelled

A place in which I may one day dwell

This is what I feel for Eretz Yisrael

As I drive along the road I see the scenery before me

Imagine Israel at the height of its glory

Who knows who once stood where my eyes are now cast?

My head becomes awash with dreams of the past

Where else could you find a land with such contrast?

Coastline, mountains and deserts so vast

I begin to ponder as I look at the landscape

What life was like here under the British mandate

Thanks to UN partition and the Balfour declaration

The Jews were on the verge of creating a location

A home for all members of the Jewish nation

Escape from persecution, a way for salvation

What excitement and delight there must have been on the occasion

Of fulfilling the Zionist Dream, what jubilation

Sounds like a cliche but I’m that way inclined

The land of Israel is truly one of a kind

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And now I have conflict going on inside

Do I follow my heart or listen to my mind?

Yeah it’s true that there it feels like home

But can I really leave England? It’s all I’ve ever known

Should I be brave now, and take the plunge

Commit to university followed by aliyah

Or can I live a fulfilling Diaspora Jewish life?

Where there’s a good chance my son won’t have a Jewish wife

Where anti-Semitism is currently on the rise

Where wearing a kippa is not always very wise

But still I’m not sure that I can cut all ties

It’s a hard decision that must be made over time

How awful to live in England and continue to pine

Desperate for a land that I know is truly mine

I have no idea what will be my decision

Just hope I’m not naive with an idealised vision

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