"Without gratitude what is life"

Without gratitude what is life ?

Good is blurred with the cataract of strife

All that is seen gives reason to complain

So what sits at the forefront is discomfort and pain

Life seems like nothing but dark tunnel vision

With each day making it"s debilitating incision

But the moment we choose to see life as a gift

Everything that was begins to shift

Expectation transforms into appreciation

The blessing of a new day ,a reason for elation

When it hits home that nothing is a foregone conclusion

We start to see the difference between enduring joy and illusion

The smallest things in life revealed as huge

Blessing and miracles become a daily deluge

For they were always around for us to see

As soon as we allowed gratitude to set us free.

Israel-no longer a dream

Israel today no longer a dream

All Exile is ,is blowing off steam

For 2000 years there was many a scream

As in the Desert G-d's word was taken bad

So the children of Israel didn't see what they had

It has taken too long for our eyes to see

That in Israel we belong to truly be free

So time for the dream to go upstream

And Israel to continually be more than they seem

Time for us to stand as one man one heart

Understanding that the best is yet to start

Never forget( remembering the 6 million)

So many of you died on the pyres of world hate

In the nazi darkness because the world did no more than wait

By the time the nations awoke for you it was too late

We cannot forgive them for closing their gate

Clear is the lesson that Jews have no friend

As always with the Jew do their morals bend

From the fires of destruction we built a state

That said no more to other nations dictating our fate

A state that has always known trouble and battle

For it irks the world that we are no longer cattle

But a nation eternal that against all prediction

Survives all the giants who wished her eviction

We will never forget those millions we lost

how tragic and terrible the horrific cost

We will live as a nation eternal standing tall with pride

For our enemies now know it is they that should hide