Love Poem: The First Time Ever I Fell In Love
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Written by: Gershon Wolf

The First Time Ever I Fell In Love

The first time ever I fell in love
  It was with a people
The people were my people
  Living in a country that was my home

I'd never known who I was
  Why I was, where I was from
I thought I was a head with a body
  I never knew I had a soul

That day, the plane was about to land
  When this people, this incedible people
Burst out in song -- 'Hatikvah,' The Hope!
  The Hope of my people for 2,000 years

Jerusalem, the Temple, the Weeping Wall
  Yes, a wall that weeps for her people
A people that weeps for her Holy Wall
  Remnant of past glory, beacon of our future

The first time ever I fell in Love
  It was with a People
My Jewish People, One Nation, One Heart
  Living in a Holy Land from the very start



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Note: Employing poetic license, I have called
Jerusalem's 'Wailing Wall' the 'Weeping Wall.'
It is an actual remnant of the Holy Temple
first rebuilt by King Solomon and then rebuilt
upon Israel's return from the Babylonian exile
about 2,500 years ago.